Today’s hot topic for the Rishi Sunak-is-terrible-at-politics club is the foolishness of suspending candidates mired in the election betting scandal a full week after Keir Starmer called for that to happen. It certainly makes Sunak look slow and weak and the Labour leader the safer bet, as it were, to be running the affairs of state. But this is just bog-standard tactical incompetence in the face of an unexpected event.
Those of us who have been active in this club for longest know that it is at a strategic level where Sunak’s political cluelessness produces the most dire consequences for his party. Consider the point of attack that Sunak and his lieutenants have been pushing hardest against Labour as we approach the final week of this campaign.
People will think Sunak has got a cheek given his own parlous failure of nerve and practice
At the Sun’s election debate last night, the Prime Minister said Labour would make the UK the ‘soft-touch illegal migration capital of the world’.
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