After manspreading Boris, is the UK ready for mansplaining Rishi? At last night’s BBC leadership debate, during which the Chancellor appeared for large sections unable to stop himself leaping ungallantly down Liz Truss’ throat whenever she tried to speak, it seemed this is what we will get if the Tory membership decides he’s their man.
Mansplaining might be a ridiculous term – what’s the harm in us sharing our wisdom from time to time, ladies? – but it’s also true that men who do it the way Sunak did last night, at all times wearing a maximally passive-aggressive grin, come across as berks.
Does being a berk rule you out of holding high office? Precedent suggests very much not, but that hasn’t stopped Team Truss from attempting to seize the moral high-ground. Following the debate an anonymous staffer for the Foreign Secretary ludicrously briefed: ‘Rishi Sunak has tonight proven he is not fit for office.
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