But Sunak too wished to show the world he is not as other men, and in particular that today’s controversies occurred when Johnson was PM.
It isn’t clear how Labour can meet Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal rules whilst still promising a huge investment to deliver” a green economy”.
His plan for 2024 is to say: “I may not be most exciting politician in the world. But I’m the more reliable of the two before you. What I promise I then deliver.” It’s unlikely to be enough on its own.
A party in office for fourteen at the likely time of the general election will find it hard to escape being held responsible for all that’s gone wrong. This can result in a vicious circle of unpopularity leading to division leading to greater unpopularity.
The pair were discussing the Prime Minister’s Cabinet, and the resignation of Gavin Williamson.
Interrupting other pipelines would cause havoc on the energy markets and prevent Europe heating itself this winter. They would be no different to German attacks on allied food convoys in the First and Second World Wars.
As the Government goes off in a radical new direction, he will hope to show he has made his party sensible.
Voters want the government to focus on reducing the cost of living, keeping a lid on the wage-price spiral, and, because of the war, national security.
Once taxation and National Insurance were deducted, his take-home pay had increased by £15 a month.
Cooper is on top of her brief, yet somehow failed to press home her advantage as she pointed out to Patel that many criminals are getting off scot free.
But unless the Party offers them a genuine shot at prosperity, it risks sliding into decline.
Hypocrisy tops the list of dangers for a politician – and Labour’s leader is dangerously exposed.
As long as this former priest and aspirant actor can find some high moral reason for doing so, he loves to make trouble.
The Prime Minister replaced Tuesday’s contrition with fighting spirit, and dismissed his opponent as “a Corbynista in a smart Islington suit”.
Only one in ten 2019 Tories – let alone anyone else – expect an outright Conservative victory next time round. Such a sense of inevitability could prove the hardest political challenge of all.