'Sunak's judgment is totally flawed as Cummings wants Conservatives to lose'

31 December 2023 , 19:58

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Rishi Sunak was pictured at the Southampton v Plymouth Argyle game on Friday (Image: Graham Hunt/ProSports/REX/Shutterstock)

Rishi Sunak’s failed secret courting of Covid rule-breaker Dominic Cummings was the devious ­desperation of the damned.

To publicly declare Mr Barnard Castle would have “absolutely nothing” to do with his Government, then beg for assistance at a covert dinner in North Yorkshire nails the lies of his apologists that this slippery PM is principled or competent. Twister Sunak has revealed himself as another Tory two-bit chancer who’ll say anything to survive in Downing Street, a hypocrite with the political morals of ousted Boris Johnson.

Untrustworthy wrecking ball Cummings preferring to see the Conservatives lose and Labour win is the cherry on the cake, showing us even more clearly that Sunak’s judgment is fatally flawed.

The humiliating rebuff from a vandal said to display insights as poor as his eyesight graphically underlines the predicament of a Prime Minister destined for defeat whether he calls the election in May or, my hunch, autumn. Keir Starmer is favoured nationally as a better Premier and the Electoral Calculus website calculates a Labour 180-seat majority in any immediate election, a mountain Sunak in his £490 Prada suede shoes appears incapable of climbing.

March Budget tax bribes are unlikely to earn the sufficient gratitude he craves from voters paying the price of lowered living standards. After 14 years of Tory misrule, workers being worse off at the end of this Parliament than at the start focuses attention on how much the Conservative Party is the problem.

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For Sunak to even toy with Cummings as an answer was to pose the wrong question. Sunak isn’t “change”, he’s more of the same horrors, and this is almost certainly his last New Year’s Day in high office. No narrow path to Tory poll victory existed. Instead, it was a tightrope, and Sunak just fell off. Those muffled cheers you hear are Starmer suppressing his glee. He should be wary of complacency but the likelihood is that Starmer will be PM this time next year. Change will sweep away the useless, amateurish and, we now know, double-dealing Sunak.

Kevin Maguire