Alastair Campbell believes Sanae Takaichi is effectively emulating the economic policy of Liz Truss's mini-budget through loose monetary policy, big spending, and tax cuts.

“And Tina who's a professor of Japanese politics is say this has got a horrible feel of the truss quart mini budget”

The long-term domination of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japanese politics is facilitated by an elite political class and the lack of a strong opposition.

“if this was any other country in the world I can think of the party of government would be getting booted out the whole time wouldn't they well very very low turnout cuz everybody's so depressed the opposition totally Hess hopeless”