Rishi Sunak is no magician.
Only a preternaturally talented politician could persuade voters that, after 13 long and not particularly successful years in office, his party represents the change they’re crying out for. That was the trick the Prime Minister tried to pull off at the Tory conference in Manchester but — judging from the polls and two truly spectacular by-election defeats last week — it’s one he’s signally failed to pull off.
