Sunak's Unconvincing Makeover
The prime minister is rushing out long-term decisions without consultation, plans or evidence. This may not end well.
Rishi Sunak's pitch to the country, at least until this week, was that he is a sober technocrat, a detail-oriented numbers guy who could be relied upon to restore order to the national finances in the wake of the Liz Truss debacle. Indeed his ascent to the prime ministership, elected unopposed by a sullen party that had rejected his candidacy just six weeks earlier, was reminiscent of the installation of one of those technocratic governments that are periodically called upon to sort out the mess caused by politicians in crisis-hit European countries such as Italy and Greece.
Yet while Sunak’s safety-first strategy may have served Britain relatively well economically over the last year, it wasn't working for him politically. The result was what we got yesterday, the prime minister reinvented as the dynamic reforme…
