John Rentoul asks why there is this upswing in pity for Rishi Sunak’s position and he asks whether this “pity” is based on voters’ feeling sorry for him or having given up on him.
From the standpoint of your average Joe (and Joanne) who doesn’t analyse Sunak’s political successes with Northern Ireland and a wider world stage, he is seen only in terms of his failure to address the financial maelstrom created by the Kwarteng/Truss comedy duo. He’s seen as oblivious to the daily horrors of exorbitant energy bills, rocketing food bills, mortgage rates, water bills and so on.
People see the chirpy mask slipping, and while we haven’t been told recently that he’s “delivering for the British people” he’s clearly on a downhill path and we can feel it in our bones.
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