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I was thinking a bit about this in the shower.
Sunak is clearly a bright and very capable person. He wouldn't have had the working career he had if he wasn't.
However, he seems to have been most undone by two things, both linked. First, political experience. Second, political ability.
We often bemoan politicians for being too political. But he is a great eg of what happens when you're shit at politics. He several opportunities to isolate Johnson early on, but allowed him to fester and make him look weak at the start of his reign. He's let the right wing nutters maintain a wholly disproportionate hold over the party and block his technocratic new start or whatever his original pitch was.
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Tim Montgomerie was on Times Radio yesterday saying that Rishi is now asking he advisers "is it me that's the problem, am I just not very good at this"
This does suggest a degree of self reflection that Liz Truss clearly doesn't have, but how has it taken him this long to come to this conclusion.