British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has a number of important files on his desk. And he also has to manage the public speaking engagements of his predecessors at 10 Downing Street.
Inflation at more than 10%, strikes across the country, Ukraine calling for fighter jets, Brexit not working… Files are piling up on the desk of Rishi Sunak, who has seen a return this week exes who don’t wish him well. Starting with Liz Truss, the one he succeeded. She led the country for a month and a half and was pushed out by her majority after panicking the opposition, the population and the financial markets.
She comes out of the silence in the conservative press. “I was a victim of the left-wing economic establishment”she says in the Telegram. An assertion that embarrasses even in his own party, the financial community in the United Kingdom not being known to be a haunt of leftists. And even if she concedes a few small errors, she continues to believe that her choices were the right ones: to deregulate the economy and lower taxes as much as possible. Decisions that Sunak corrected upon his arrival in Downing Street. Without quoting him by name, she therefore criticizes him today. Remember that they both belong to the Conservative Party.
Boris Johnson also reappeared, and he too to lecture Rishi Sunak. For Ukraine, BoJo is asking for the immediate delivery of fighter jets, when the current Premier minister is more cautious, wanting to avoid escalation with Moscow. Not a week goes by without Johnson not being talked about, either to give his opinion or because he is caught up in a case.
“Colossal Mistake”
These days John Major has decided to add a layer. In a parliamentary committee, he spoke of Brexit as a “monumental error”. The one who left the post of Premier Minister 25 years ago has always been against leaving Europe, so his statement comes as no surprise. But it obviously does not help Rishi Sunak, a fervent Brexiter, especially since once again the blow comes from his own camp.
In total, seven of his predecessors are still there, three of whom are still deputies. The current Downing Street resident today politely says he will listen “always their points of view” and that the debate of ideas is “healthy”. In this story, he is therefore the only one who cannot say what he really thinks.