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The Tragedy of Rishi Sunak’s Premiership Is That He Will Forever Be Constrained By The Failures of Brexit..
And he will end up exactly like his Conservative predecessors.
It has been a fortnight since Rishi Sunak became Britain’s youngest Premier for nearly 200 years and its very first non-white one too.
Even in the midst of the profound economic difficulties and great political instability, his rise to the highest office in the land must be seen as a remarkable achievement, for the Conservative party, (which was for the better part of the twentieth century an anti-immigration movement) and the wider country.
But that’s where it ends.
Even as our protagonist gave his first speech on the steps of number 10 Downing street, Sunak talked about everything that his predecessor did wrong, but not once did he mention Brexit.
And yet, Brexit remains the elephant in the room; the taboo word that dare not speak its name.
If we, for a second, expunged Liz Truss’s disastrous 44 days in charge from our imagination, we will find that the extraordinary mess of Britain’s choice of departing from the European union had created a problem, whose magnitude we were only beginning to get to grips with.