Poor Rishi Sunak, said Patrick O’Flynn in The Spectator. Not long ago he was the toast of his party, thanks to the furlough scheme and his “smoothy chops” public performances. Such was his popularity, there was talk of him soon replacing Boris Johnson as PM. But now, the Chancellor has learnt that writing large cheques during the Covid emergency was a lot easier than managing the cost-of-living crunch that followed it. Last week, his mini budget was criticised from all sides for failing to meet the scale of the crisis facing millions of families and doing nothing for those on benefits. The botched PR operation that followed only added to the sense that Britain’s richest MP is worryingly out of touch with the lives of the “scrimping classes”.
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