Buffoonery has been no bar to climbing the Tory party hierarchy – and this mess is the inevitable result
British politics has a serious problem, meaning not only that it faces grave challenges but that one of them is the struggle to be serious.
The appointment of Jeremy Hunt as chancellor was meant to restore maturity in economic management by dismantling the policy playground where Liz Truss had made her pitch to be prime minister.
Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist
