Rishi Sunak the British Prime Minister will be marking his 100 days in office this week. That is double the duration of Liz Truss’s brutally short term as British prime minister.
However, the Conservative leader has little to celebrate as double-digit inflation is fuelling a winter of misery for many in Sunak’s Britain.
On Wednesday, February 1st, the day before his mini-anniversary, at least 500,000 workers will escalate a rolling series of strikes to shut down schools, railways, and several other public sectors.
Ambulance drivers have also been striking, in solidarity with nurses on their first-ever walkout. But Sunak is remaining adamant that unions’ pay demands will only fuel the decades-high inflation.
“Being an effective manager of public money and public services is not a sin, it is the case that first of all we have to bring the stability — and we have — and right now have set out areas where we are performing,” senior minister Michael Gove had told Sky News on Sunday.
