The prime minister came into office with low expectations – and he hasn’t even met them. Britain feels broken, and Tory MPs know it
into Downing Street. The good news for Sunak? He’s still there. Just about. The bad news? He’s still there. Just about.
Labour’s lead in the opinion polls has widened to 20 points and shows no sign of shrinking. We’re all just waiting for a merciful release. The general election that will put us all out of our misery. Sunak included. Being that shit at role-playing prime minister can’t be any fun. Especially when you know the only reason you’re still in a job is that your party knows its reputation is so trashed there’s no one capable of doing a better job.
Unlike last week, Keir Starmer chose not to use his six questions on the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Mindful not to reopen any wounds within his own party over his insistence on remaining in lockstep with Sunak and not calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, he instead played to the home gallery by merely calling out Tory failures and reminding Rish! of his existential futility. At times like this, Sunak must wonder whatever possessed him to give up the hedge fund life in California.
Starmer carried on punching the bruise. The Tory candidate in Tamworth had told voters they could fuck off if they were hard up. Was this official government policy? And could the prime minister call a general election so the rest of us could have a chance to tell the“Everything is going brilliantly,” Sunak mumbled. As usual, we were lucky to have him. He couldn’t understand why the country wasn’t more grateful for everything he had done. Everyone had never had it so good.
Labour’s Lilian Greenwood raised the awkward question of Sunak’s missing WhatsApp messages. Surely a techbro could access the messages on his phone. Especially as we now knew it wasn’t lost and was working just fine. Er … no, said RishGPT. He had handed over hundreds of messages to the Covid inquiry. Just none of the ones it had actually wanted. Hopefully.
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