Tour optimistically called PMConnect starts with visit to Morecambe, just given £50m grant
If at first you don’t succeed … For his first few months as prime minister, Rishi Sunak’s minders have tried to keep him away from the public as much as possible. The submarine commander. Leading us to victory from beneath the waves. Or not. Because it turns out that you can dislike what you don’t see. Rish!’s attempts to steady the economy and resolve the strikes have been met with at first scepticism and then incredulity. The man sold to us as a competent tech bro, the management consultant for all seasons, was yet another Tory dud. Not much better than Liz Truss or Boris Johnson.
So, just a few months in, it’s time for a relaunch. Sunak 2.0. Rish! is to be uncaged. To be let loose among his people. On a tour optimistically called PMConnect. Except the prime minister can barely connect with himself, let alone the rest of the country. So more like PMDisconnect. There’s a gaping void between him and the country. And how could there not be? The whole point of being part of the megarich is not having to engage with the little people. To immunise yourself from the day-to-day stresses of ordinary life. Rish! can no more suddenly decide he wants to spend time among us than we can share his cushioned lifestyle.
