Sunak is clever, no doubt, it's got him where he is.
But he's not good at Politics which is an art craft and skill in it's own right, having the Common Touch also helps which he ain't got.
Wilson, Thatcher, Blair don't have reputations for being super clever but they could,in their own ways do Politics very well, each won three elections and dominated their political generation.
Sunak might be remembered as the first Asian PM; which is an achievement but nothing else* because there isn't anything else.
*ok maybe hopefully leading the tories to a generational disaster of a defeat.
This is probably the first time in his life that Sunak has encountered failure.
His top down technocratic beliefs and practice are just adding to the problems that 40 years of neo- liberalism has given us.
What's left? Grifting on behalf of the family?
Sunak is clever, no doubt, it's got him where he is.
But he's not good at Politics which is an art craft and skill in it's own right, having the Common Touch also helps which he ain't got.
Wilson, Thatcher, Blair don't have reputations for being super clever but they could,in their own ways do Politics very well, each won three elections and dominated their political generation.
Sunak might be remembered as the first Asian PM; which is an achievement but nothing else* because there isn't anything else.
*ok maybe hopefully leading the tories to a generational disaster of a defeat.