When people are worried about paying their bills they want a Government who will be on their side.
As well as producing policies to improve instead of worsening life, they should behave properly. Which is also why the multiple scandals tainting the Tories may prove fatal.
We are owed detailed explanations, not the obfuscations, evasions and half-truths from politicians who go silent, issue dubious statements, launch private threats and do everything in their power to dodge public grillings.
Ministers facing serious allegations who insist they have nothing to hide should be demanding detailed, forensic interrogations from journalists and MPs. That they do not is very telling in itself.
Rishi Sunak’s Government and the long list of Tory prominent figures accused of unethical behaviour is deeply disturbing and tainting British democracy. Until politics is cleaned up, we will never have a Government on our side.
Strikers backed
People are not daft and are fed up with ministers taking them for fools during the wave of cost of living strikes in Britain.
Most voters blame the Government rather than trade unions for disputes with the nurses in particular enjoying widespread backing.
So if fresh NHS walkouts go ahead, the public will blame stubborn Tories who refuse to negotiate and pay fair when the value of wages is plummeting and prices are soaring.
The opinion poll finding 60% of people support the nurses with 30% against is a decisive two-to-one majority that Rishi Sunak would be foolish to ignore.
Hurting family
Prince Andrew is the royal who has done the most damage to the family.
His closeness to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell led to the Royals paying out millions to someone who accused Andrew of rape.
Sometimes it feels as if the King’s family is actively trying to wreck May’s coronation.
