While the Conservatives have given up, Rachel Reeves didn’t make the alternative sound exciting. But maybe that’s OK
he last time most of us saw Rishi Sunak was on Friday lunchtime. He was surrounded by armoured vehicles. His private security detail to protect him from angry Conservative MPs. Appearing in his own BBC hostage video, he declared that it was farNothing escapes our Rish!. For once he was right. The later results were even worse for the government than the earlier ones. Culminating in the loss of the West Midlands mayoralty. One of the Tories’ home bankers.
Sunak hunkered down in No 10 over the weekend. The Saturday and Sunday papers were cancelled to prevent him accidentally seeing any bad news. For a long time he couldn’t even face getting out of bed. His wife tried piping in the motivational speeches of Ayn Rand, but even her brand of rightwing triumphalism couldn’t prevail. Poor Rish! couldn’t even be bothered to order himself a new pair of trainers.
Reeves is never going to be the most exciting speaker. Then not many politicians are. But she’s got one thing going for her that none of the Treasury team possess. An aura of competence. She looks and sounds the part. Jeremy Hunt has only to open his mouth and he sends the country and the markets into a tailspin.
Not that Labour was offering instant salvation. The country was in too much of a mess for that. But what she could promise was some much needed stability. Things would not be getting worse. She wouldn’t be making £46bn of unfunded tax cuts. Rachel didn’t make her “securonomics” sound very exciting. But maybe we’ve all had enough of exciting. Give it 10 years and we might turn this around. We are where we are.
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