Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak tried to strike a conciliatory tone at his campaign launch this morning, in which he praised his former boss Boris Johnson as a ‘remarkable’ man with a ‘good heart’. It appears though that Sunak’s defenestration of the PM might be a sore point for his campaign.
At the launch, Sunak was grilled by Sky’s Beth Rigby, who suggested he was a divisive figure, saying:
‘You have a police fine over partygate and there have been questions too over your very wealthy family avoiding paying millions of pounds in tax due to your wife being a non-dom taxpayer…’
Mr S isn’t sure that Rigby is best placed to suggest that those who break the Covid rules should have no place in public life. But it was her suggestion that Sunak was an ‘utterly corrosive figure’ that seemed to hit home, with the crowd heckling and booing the Sky News presenter in response as she finished her spiel.
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