Committee chair Bernard Jenkin ensures attempts to grill the prime minister never get very far

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. This hasn’t been Rishi Sunak’s week. Or month. Or six months, even. Life hasn’t been kind for our gilded prince. Normally he only has to click his fingers and things fall into his lap. But running a country has proved to be a lot tougher than he expected. Partly because he’s not very good at it. Yet also because real life doesn’t often obey a Goldman Sachs handbook. Just working long hours with an ordinary brain doesn’t cut it.

Inflation remains stubbornly high. Government debt is higher than ever. The economy is flatlining, barely out of recession. Growth is the lowest of all G7 countries. The government’s Rwanda plan has been deemed illegal. Hospital waiting lists are stubbornly high. So much so that death is almost preferable for some patients.

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