'The economy, stupid': rarely have three words been so debased by overuse as the campaign message coined by James Carville, Bill Clinton’s chief strategist in the 1992 US presidential race; a slogan which has been the inspiration of countless headlines in the past three decades.
Tomorrow, Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt will be hoping that Carville’s maxim does indeed hold true — that, in politics, the economy is what matters most — as the Chancellor delivers his Autumn Statement. After a week of mayhem, following the Supreme Court’s rejection of the government’s Rwanda policy, Downing Street badly needs a clear win.
