Halloween horrors from all-tricks-and-no-treats Rishi Sunak show the Conservative Party is still terrifying voters.
His cuts to key public services and living standards may be delayed until November 17 but the Tory axeman behind earlier-scythed household budgets and spending will still impose painful and unnecessary austerity.
It’s in the financial DNA of Sunak, a wealthy banker and richest Prime Minister in British history without the touch or political intelligence to relate to folk struggling on a fraction of his money.
Crackpot twister Suella Braverman is suppurating evidence of Sunak’s ivory tower aloofness.
Doing a dirty deal to restore after only six days a Home Secretary sacked for multiple security breaches sealed an unelected Premiership for a man beaten the month before by Liz Truss.
Yet that pact exposed Sunak’s lack of integrity and threatens to blow up in his face as accusations come thick and fast over Leaky Sue’s incompetence, trustworthiness and nastiness.
Relieved the spotlight’s on Braverman will be another Sunak acolyte, Gavin Williamson.
The former fireplace salesman was sacked himself over an alleged security breach at Defence then judged the biggest education dunce in living memory.
Resurrecting Sir Gav illustrates that behind that Sunak smile and politeness is a cack-handed cynic who’ll fail to restore order.
Sunak’s record proves he’s an economic dud we can’t afford.
The Covid furlough scheme is the exception in the career of a Right-winger stuck in the past who missold growth destroying Brexit and chops rather than invests in the present and future.
Sunak’s trickier than Truss but Prime Minister’s Questions was Starmer attacking his foe with gusto.
Being nowhere near as upright, honest and honourable as he pretends is shaping up to be the Sunak final nail in the Tory coffin.
