Rishi Sunak will stick to 2019 Tory party manifesto, says MP

The public would hear much more of Rishi Sunak’s agenda for the country in the coming hours, said Victoria Atkins. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

Rishi Sunak will return the Conservative party to the policies of the 2019 manifesto, one of his key allies has said, acknowledging it had been a “brutal six weeks in politics”.

The former Home Office minister Victoria Atkins, tipped to get a high-profile role in Sunak’s administration, said the outgoing prime minister, Liz Truss, would agree she “stepped away from the 2019 manifesto” that won the Tories an 80-seat majority.