I now think that Rishi Sunak is an even worse prime minister than Boris Johnson. Don’t agree? Here’s my case When Sunak became PM, I had pause for reflection. What if Sunak turns out to be good at the job, I asked myself? I had been saying for years that if only the Tories could get a decent leader and pursue a reasonably centre-rightish path, ditch all the UKIP rubbish completely, then I might have to think again about whether I would prefer them to continue in government over Labour. On Brexit, neither party is looking to do anything to reverse any part of it, so that’s not a factor here. I felt for a moment that I was forced to give Sunak a genuine chance. After all, he had set himself up as the centrist technocrat who was going to dig in and fix the problems created by his predecessor colleagues, and I have never doubted that he’s a clever man. Maybe he might surprise us all, I thought immediately after he became PM. Rishi could turn out to be a very good prime minister, I was forced to concede, leading the Tories back to poll leads and a genuine hope of winning the next general election.
You make a good case, but worse than Boris? Really? Worse than the PM who rushed us into the NI protocol and then rushed us out of the EU in such a screaming hurry that it's going to take a decade, maybe two decades, to partially undo the gratuitous damage he and Lord Frost did? Worse than the PM who debased almost every part of our constitution, who seems incapable of telling the truth, who made hi-falutin promises and set tight targets on things like electric vehicles, but didn't bother to do any of the hard graft to make it possible to reach those targets?
Sunak lost all credibility when he said Norther Ireland had the best of both worlds, being in the United Kingdom and the Single Market. Probably the biggest insult to a Nation any PM has said.
Sunak lost all credibility when he said Norther Ireland had the best of both worlds, being in the United Kingdom and the Single Market. Probably the biggest insult to a Nation any PM has said.
You make a good case, but worse than Boris? Really? Worse than the PM who rushed us into the NI protocol and then rushed us out of the EU in such a screaming hurry that it's going to take a decade, maybe two decades, to partially undo the gratuitous damage he and Lord Frost did? Worse than the PM who debased almost every part of our constitution, who seems incapable of telling the truth, who made hi-falutin promises and set tight targets on things like electric vehicles, but didn't bother to do any of the hard graft to make it possible to reach those targets?
Sunak lost all credibility when he said Norther Ireland had the best of both worlds, being in the United Kingdom and the Single Market. Probably the biggest insult to a Nation any PM has said.
Sunak lost all credibility when he said Norther Ireland had the best of both worlds, being in the United Kingdom and the Single Market. Probably the biggest insult to a Nation any PM has said.