
As rugby managers make changes to their teams in a hugely competitive World Cup, should Rishi Sunak not apply some of the discipline of top sport to his ministerial line-up?
Only weeks ahead of their opening game in Paris, England replaced no fewer than nine of the 15 men scheduled to start in their final warm-up match. It didn’t help then but after a string of heavy losses it had to be done. And last weekend, that refreshed squad defied the critics and beat a formidable opponent almost everyone had expected to win.