PM: I'LL TEAR UP RULE BOOK ON '30 YEARS OF BROKEN POLITICS'

'Our political system is just too focused on short-term advantage not long-term success'

- Sam Lister

RISHI Sunak will today vow to repair Britain's "broken" political system, saying voters are fed up after 30 years of "nothing ever changing".

The PM will lay out his vision to "fundamentally" reform the country by taking tough long-term choices instead of the easy quick wins.

He plans to ditch the next phase of the HS2 rail line and divert billions into local projects.

Addressing the Conservative Party conference for the first time as leader, the PM will accuse Labour of taking voters for granted.

Mr Sunak is expected to say: "There is the undeniable sense that politics just doesn't work the way it should. A feeling that Westminster is a broken system and the same goes for Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and Stormont. It isn't anger, it is an exhaustion with politics. In particular, politicians saying things, and then nothing ever changing. And you know what? People are right.

"Politics doesn't work the way it should. We've had 30 years of a political system which incentivises the easy decision, not the right one. Thirty years of vested interests standing in the way of change."

Mr Sunak will tell the Tory grassroots that he has a plan to end the 30-year-old problems in the system by looking at the needs of the country for decades to come, instead of popular decisions based around the electoral cycle.

He will say: "Our political system is too focused on short-term advantage, not long-term success.

"Politicians spent more time campaigning for change than actually delivering it. Our mission is to fundamentally change our country."