25 June 2023 , 21:39
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So how well is Rishi Sunak doing with his own five goals?
Brilliantly... if you’re Keir Starmer and the Labour Party.
The Prime Minister’s declared priorities are another five nails hammered into the coffin of the Conservative Party.
- Number one: Halve inflation.
The rising cost of living is stubbornly stuck at a purse-emptying 8.7%.
That’s failing.
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- Number two: Grow the economy.
Interest rate rises risk crashing the economy into recession by wiping out a projected tiny increase.
That’s another fail.
- Number three: Reduce debt.
It’s just smashed the 100% GDP ceiling for the first time since 1961.
Failure again.
- Number four: Cut NHS waiting lists.
Gone up to a record 7.4 million as more queue in agony.
Failed.
- Number five: Stop the boats.
More than 10,000 have crossed the Channel so far this year.
Keir Starmer is edging closer to No 10 (PA)You get the picture by now. When the PM’s own five goals unveiled in January have become five own goals scored in the Tory net, a healthy Labour majority or even landslide are suddenly possibilities.
I remain a little sceptical, despite a huge 18-point lead for Labour in the polls and the gift of Scottish seats as the wheels come off the scandal-hit SNP motor home.
Many Labour front and back-benchers fear that Keir Starmer’s caution is risky for Labour.
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Who knows what lies ahead in scores of Harold Wilson’s long weeks in politics, as Sunak prays to be rescued by Harold Macmillan’s
unexpected events?
But it’s hard to see beyond a Starmer premiership from autumn next year, or whenever the Tories finally call the general election.
That in itself is remarkable.
It will be the most dramatic reverse in British politics since Clement Attlee’s 1945 thumping Labour victory over wartime leader Winston Churchill’s Conservatives.
Inheriting the fewest Labour MPs since a decade before that, 1935, was a terrible hand to start with.
Sunak’s five own goals might be misgoverning Conservatives losing the upcoming election, more than Labour actually winning it.
Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, a bad Brexit, spiralling mortgages and rents in a ferocious cost of living crisis, sleaze, dishonours, and a weak Sunak out of touch are a hand of trump cards dealt to Keir Starmer.
Flailing Sunak leading the Conservatives to near-certain defeat is why the Tory Party’s in meltdown as the summer heats up.