The UK government faces a dizzying array of tough policy challenges in the year ahead, including recession, high inflation and energy costs, industrial action in several key sectors, and sizeable backlogs in the health and justice system driven by the Covid pandemic. Against this difficult backdrop, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has outlined five priorities, halving inflation, boosting growth, shrinking national debt, reducing waiting lists on the National Health Service, and new laws to stop and deport people who come to the UK on small boats from France.
This Dods Political Intelligence report, written by our London-based team of political consultants, provides a sector-by-sector lookahead to what to expect in the coming months, including a brief overview of the main policy challenges and legislation and diary of key events.