Things you thought you’d never see. Hoped even. There are several possible cartoon personas Rishi Sunak might adopt. Lord Snooty, perhaps. Though perhaps Jacob Rees-Mogg has already bagged that one. Certainly the swot head boy. The archetypal snitch. Cuthbert Cringeworthy. But never in your wildest dreams would you have him down as the anti-establishment Dennis the Menace. Yet that is precisely who Rish! appears to now model himself on.
Early on in his exchanges with the Labour leader at prime minister’s questions, Sunak described Keir Starmer as Sir Softy. Clearly modelled on Walter the Softy, Dennis’s arch nemesis. The butt of all his gags. So presumably that makes Suella Braverman or Dominic Raab Gnasher the Dog. Though Gnasher was a great deal more likeable than either of them. But really?
