Tetchy Rishi, under pressure, got snippy, continually talking over Starmer. It was a terrible look
Starmer said “change” every other word while Sunak insisted that he has a plan and that it is working, even if he sounded as if he didn’t believe it.Starmer said “change” every other word while Sunak insisted that he has a plan and that it is working, even if he sounded as if he didn’t believe it.It was another night of broken sleep. Fever dreams of Nigel Farage tormented him. That wide crocodile smile. Siren promises to the disaffected. The narcissistic orange glow.
His ruminations were interrupted by the arrival of Oliver Dowden. Here for the final preparations for the evening’s first televised debate. Olive was supposed to be role-playing. It hadn’t been going well. Rish! detested Starmer because … because he had the air of a winner. Men like him weren’t meant to succeed. And try as he might, he couldn’t bring himself to have any feelings for Dowden. He was just too wet. Too useless.“You’re so right,” mumbled Olive. “I will take you back to square one.
First the opening statements that we’ve all heard dozens of time before. Keir saying “change” every other word and reminding everyone that the Tories record over the last 14 years is indefensible. Sunak saying that he has a plan and that it is working. Even he didn’t sound as if he believed it. Cutting taxes by increasing them. Cutting waiting lists by increasing them.
Weirdly, Starmer didn’t refute this figure till much later in the debate, allowing Sunak to repeat it six times. What he did have though was empathy. He understood how hard it was. He also delivered the killer line. If the plan was working why didn’t Sunak delay the election until we could see the benefits. The reality was that things were about to get worse.
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