![]() The starting point, probably what comfortably off Tory members love about her, is that she is, as one colleague puts it, ‘allergic to tax’. That’s to say what she actually plans to do in office. Unlike the stylistically elitist Carrie Johnson, she comes across as more of John Lewis kinda gal.īut there’s also the small matter of what’ll be impacting on the rest of us. What she’ll make of the £840 a roll Lulu Lytle wallpaper in the flat above the shop is anyone’s guess. He’s snuck off from Downing Street to the PM’s pretty grace and favour home, Chequers, via two overseas holidays.Īnd while he’s basically butted out, it’s said Truss is now spending half her time preparing to butt in. Unlike a Prime Minister, who’s supposed to dream up policies, that have to, well, you know, stick.īut the man’s clearly demob happy. The difference being a scribbler only really needs to read runes and provide food for thought. Something Boris Johnson is no doubt looking forward to, getting back into the mindset that he never really forsook.Īs a newspaper columnist he had all the licence in the world. Besides which, it’s a journalist’s privilege to flatly contradict him or herself in a matter of days. Regular readers may also find it a bit odd that only last week this column was giving Sunak something of a sporting chance.īut the reality is that the late flat-out gallop simply hasn’t materialised. Then again, as Margaret Thatcher said when she finally conceded she was done for: ‘It’s a funny old world.’ Most of the party’s grownups, who simply brand her lightweight, assumed even though she got into the final two she’d implode anyway. ![]() On September 5th then, there’s likely to be a lot of huffing and puffing in parliament, given that many of Truss’s contemporaries rate her underwhelming to bad. Or the man, or woman, in the street, come to think of it. ![]() ![]() Lots of Tory MPs say he’s the coolest dude in the brood.Ĭlutching at straws? Sounds like it, given that Tory MPs have no more say in who wins than the man on the moon. Yeah but hang on a minute, say Sunak supporters. After a pretty wobbly start she’s grown into her own character, and her poll lead still comfortably tops thirty per cent. Sir John Curtice, the nation’s number one number cruncher, aka the guru’s guru, gives him a meagre five per cent chance, unless Liz Truss: ‘Fouls up in some spectacular way.’ĭoesn’t look like it. But he’s fast running out of time, and the figures are becoming brutally clear. Sunak’s team’s still saying the people he’s getting out to meet definitely like him. That’s the ninety-nine-per-cent-plus of the population that isn’t a Tory Party member. Those who don’t have a vote must just suck it up. ‘He said quote – I’d like to help you son, but you’re too young to vote.’ The 1958 hit song Summertime Blues, that tells of a guy who feels hard done by, contains a telling line about his attempt to get help from his local congressman. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, the betting is we’re going to have to trust in Truss, whether we like it or not. But it now looks much more likely Britain’s government will turn a distinctly darker shade of blue within a fortnight. ![]() Until just a few days ago he still seemed vaguely in with a chance of becoming our next Prime Minister. If Rishi Sunak ain’t got the blues he ain’t got the picture. ![]()
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