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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Truss and Sunak: completely unreliable narrators of their own campaigns

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.
In the blue corner Rishi Sunak, a long shot in a two-horse race, and in the other blue corner Liz Truss, who says one thing one day and on the next denies it. Composite: PA

Nice work if you can get it. Boris Johnson has just returned from holiday. Not that it would much matter if he had stayed in Slovenia. Because it’s not as if he’s doing much at home. Thank god we’re not in a cost of living crisis with fuel bills now set to top £4,200. Then we really might be up shit creek while the paddle watched Netflix.

Most prime ministers might have done things rather differently. Seen out their last few weeks in office at No 10 with dignity and go on vacation in September. To protect their legacy if nothing else. But the Convict sees things through the prism of his own narcissism. His legacy has always been about his own self-gratification. So he takes his pleasures where and when he feels like it. He wants it. He takes it. He won’t pay the price. That’s for Lords Brownlow and Bamford: bank-rollers in chief to Team Johnson.

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