In the race for the top job there’s the alumni of Academy Boris – and then there’s the former chancellor, Keir Starmer’s biggest headache, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
In the race for the top job there’s the alumni of Academy Boris – and then there’s the former chancellor, Keir Starmer’s biggest headache‘Rishi Sunak was thrust into sudden prominence at the Treasury.’T
These hopeful prime ministers were almost all responsible for the state of the NHS, the staffing chaos at airports, the collapse of the justice system and the impoverishing of local government. Crippling by Brexit, blasted by Covid and torpedoed by sanctions on Russia, they have struggled to sustain their party’s reputation for responsible economic policy.
One candidate alone has not capitulated. Rishi Sunak was an inexperienced unknown four years ago. Thrust into sudden prominence at the Treasury, his rise has been bruised by some misjudgements.was a mistake, as has been his curiously vain publicity machine – apparently mimicking Johnson’s. Early ambition saw him lurch into supporting hard Brexit and tough imprisonment.
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