“I can’t decide,” says Rishi. “What do you think?”
“The blue socks are nice, darling,” says Akshata. We are in the flat. Rishi has been a bit down lately. There has been some voting happening in local places, but not very much of it was for him.
James who used to write nice things about us in The Times tried to cheer Rishi up by saying that the results showed someone called Starmer hadn’t “sealed the deal”, because several people had still done some voting for Rishi. But it didn’t help.
“What is wrong with people?” Rishi asks, flopping back on the bed, still holding a collection of blue and black socks. “Why can’t they get it into their thick heads that now I’ve changed course, we need to stick with…
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