 Eat Out To Help Out, the photo op at a petrol station where it was revealed he can't work a debit card, the £180 bluetooth mug - all examples of Sunak straddling the fine, Spinal Tap line between clever and stupid. Rewarding colleagues who helped you rally enough support to beat Boris Johnson into Number 10 - like Gavin Williamson and Suella Braverman - probably seemed a good idea at the time. Braverman was called to the Commons this afternoon to explain how she managed to rise from the dead in just six days - a record beaten only by Lazarus and his best mate. And then there's twice-sacked Williamson, who was under rehabilitation for his f){kind=link}
Under a greatest hits set of questions from Keir Starmer, the newly minted PM mocked Labour for “finally understanding that spending has to be paid for” – a realisation that eluded members of his own cabinet as recently as Friday
Both Rishi Sunak and most of what he said at his first Prime Minister’s Questions might be described in the same way – a bit rich.
Under a greatest hits set of questions from Keir Starmer, the newly minted PM mocked Labour for “finally understanding that spending has to be paid for” – a realisation that eluded members of his own cabinet as recently as Friday.
Then came the inevitable callback to Sunak’s secretly recorded admission that he’d diverted cash from poor urban areas to Tory constituencies.
His response was to boast that after 14 years of Tory government areas of deprivation were not restricted to London, but spread throughout the country.