The Prime Minister hasn’t given a damn about the UK housing, transport, and homelessness: Inflamed by the biggest battles?

Inflation is double digits, and the recession is expected to last deep into the 4th decade. The National Health Service is in crisis, public transportation is failing, and there are serious shortages of workers after the UK leaves the European Union. Homeowners face soaring mortgage rates, renters are subject to no-fault evictions, and millions can’t afford to heat their homes. Food banks are at breaking point and more than 14 million people are living in poverty. Winter is here, and it’s bleak.

Yet when it comes to his biggest battles, Mr. Sunak has already shown a penchant for inflexibility rather than negotiation. In the face of the biggest wave of public sector strikes in 25 years, the prime minister has been criticized for missing in action. Instead, Mr. Sunak has unveiled an assault on the right to strike, introducing new laws that would require “minimum service levels” in key services and leave unions liable for legal action if they are not met.

Against those who insist that there is no alternative but to suffer, ordinary Britons are saying that, actually, there is — and it’s called solidarity.

The situation is not good. British households are in the midst of the biggest fall in living standards since the 1950s, yet Mr. Sunak seems to have little idea of how to reverse it. It does little to bring actual improvement to peoples lives if the promises are vague. Add a dubious effort to coax recent retirees back into work and plans to deregulate the City of London, some of which have already been abandoned, and the overall impression is of a leader both misfiring and weak.

Mr. Sunak has abandoned some policies in response to internal pressure. Mr. Sunak was spared from a backbench rebellion when the government scrapped plans to introduce mandatory home construction targets in December. To head off another, the prime minister relaxed a ban on onshore wind farms that he’d previously supported.