With continuing talk of a leadership challenge, PM and business secretary have little to say at stage-managed praise-filled event
efore we go to the Business Connect conference in Warwickshire, a quick “previously in Tory endgame”: Rishi Sunak was under pressure, as even Conservative MPs who thought that however bad he was, changing leaders would be worse, were starting to revise their view. Penny Mordaunt’s name had been floated, but she was commonly thought of as the stalking horse candidate, for the more plausible Kemi Badenoch . Rishi had threatened a general election if people didn’t stop challenging his leadership.
Badenoch, afterwards, made the peculiar decision to repeat everything he’d just said, adding some truly minor tweaks to the machine, a new government advice body, to make sure everyone can use cutting-edge digital technology. Nobody wants to bandy around words like “North” and “Korea”, but my God, the fawning. First, to Sunak: “Your announcement is fantastic,” said Julie White of the construction industry. A bit more of a comment than a question, but hear her out. “But we seem to have devalued apprenticeships in the UK, because the only way into a fantastic job is through university.” “Perfect,” Sunak replied, presumably by accident.
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