Como Wes Streeting, Ministro da Saúde da Sombra, disse em um evento no centro de negócios em Londres nesta semana, Rishi Sunak deve ter quebrado um número de espelhos quando era criança. Semana
Every time the prime minister looks to reset, re-launch, or reboot, he is hit with another bad news story.
Over the Summer, his ‘Small Boats Week 'coincidiu com um número recorde de barcos que cruzam o canal sendo anunciado, a barcaça que abrigava cerca de vinte refugiados sendo evacuados por causa da doença dos legionários, e ainda não havia sinal de aviões cheios daqueles imigrantes irritantes que não tinham para Ruanda.
Sua semana de 'NHS' e 'Economy' Week não se saiu muito melhor. Sunak não foi ajudado pelas observações do Secretário de Estado da Educação, que se opuseram ao interrogatório do entrevistador de mídia com uma linguagem bastante colorida e não parlamentar. Evitado. Os dados econômicos não são positivos, o Reino Unido parece ter sido desprezado e deixado de fora de um grande acordo internacional acordado na cúpula do G20, e Keir Starmer o marcou com um nome que provavelmente permanecerá - “
Still, the parliamentary recess gave him some light relief, and he will have hoped to return to the Commons last week with an opportunity of getting on the front foot.
Those hopes were dashed on day one, with the announcement about crumbling schools – and his personal involvement in that particular crisis. Sunak wasn’t helped by the remarks of the Secretary of State for Education who objected to her media interviewer’s interrogation with some rather colourful, un-parliamentary language.
On reflection, it is hard not to sympathise with Gillian Keegan’s view that had previous incumbents of her current post ‘got off their arses’ then the issue of ceilings potentially falling in on pupil’s heads may have been avoided.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, a terrorist was allowed a few days unauthorised leave, wandering the streets of London after escaping from prison.
This week the PM has suffered more difficulties. The economic data is not positive, the UK appears to have been snubbed and left out of a major international deal agreed at the G20 summit, and Keir Starmer has tagged him with a name that is likely to stick – “ inaction Man”. No final, sua sorte acabou, mas ele certamente teve seu quinhão de pausas. Sunak não teve tanta sorte. Downtown in Business
I said in this blog a number of times that Boris Johnson was a lucky politician. In the end his luck ran out, but he certainly had his fair share of breaks. Sunak has had no such luck.
When he was elected by his parliamentary colleagues a year ago, they hoped he would be John Major vintage 1992. As the months tick by, its looks increasingly likely that what they have got is John Major vintage 1997.
