Talk to members of the Tory tribe about the Chancellor’s campaign to take over from Boris Johnson and a pattern emerges. Repeatedly in recent weeks I’ve heard many variations on the same theme. “It has to be Sunak,” is a summary of the view. The Chancellor polls well, for now, with the public and far better than his colleagues and potential rivals, runs the argument. He’s a well-adjusted, fair-minded, organised technocrat with a dash of charisma who could restore some order in Number 10. It couldn’t be any worse than now?
Western politicians are promoting fictions in the face of an economic reckoning
Is the voters’ choice to be either left wing chaos or right wing chaos?