I was invited to Sunak’s leadership campaign launch. Then I wasn’t. Surely someone who wants to lead our country can’t be scared of a little gentle mockery?
Our sketchwriter was told Rishi Sunak’s campaign launch event was full yet it had room for other journalists who accepted invitations after he had accepted his.Our sketchwriter was told Rishi Sunak’s campaign launch event was full yet it had room for other journalists who accepted invitations after he had accepted his.Last modified on Tue 12 Jul 2022 21.56 BSTn email arrives from the Ready4Rish! media team late on Monday afternoon.
So it was personal. And the frontrunner to be our next prime minister was running scared. Rish! was so thinned-skinned he couldn’t even take a bit of criticism or gentle piss-taking. And at heart was against a free press. So much for the man who claims to love democratic values. Shortly afterwards, Sunak peeked over the lectern. He wanted to have a grownup conversation. Though not one that might involve anyone talking back at him. This was to be strictly a one-way conversation. About how we had got where we were. A three-year trajectory in which he had no recollection of ever being involved. It’s astonishing how bad the economy has got in the week since he resigned as chancellor. We were doing just fine till Nadhim Zahawi came along.had been a great, great leader.
Rish! took a quick question from a Tory councillor – “ I don’t know how to love you. You complete me” – and then a couple more from the media, which he made no effort to answer before scurrying off to count his votes. Unfortunately, this might not be a positive for Tory MPs who tend only to trust other people’s lies. So his pitch of clean-living dependability, stitched together with plenty of extended military metaphors – did you know he had been in the army? – may have fallen largely on deaf ears.
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