Philip Collins
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)This weekend a competition began to rival the Conservative Party leadership content in its predictability and lack of intrigue. Though the standard of play is higher and the entertainment on offer greater than that provided by Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the English Premier League just opened another season in which the rich will rise to the top and the poor will compete not to be relegated.
There could hardly be a better metaphor for the nation that the Conservative leadership candidates aspire to lead. Sunak’s unwise confession last week that, as Chancellor, he started to divert funds from areas of great deprivation to Tunbridge Wells is the political equivalent of the Premier League. Here money talks, with the also-rans left with little hope of becoming genuine contenders.
