Dear James,
One month ago, Rishi Sunak, our new PM, kidded himself that he could create a cabinet containing all the flavours of your divided party. He would be the great smoother over of all dissent, the calmer of the torrid seas of your divided party and the reasonable guarantor of that elusive condition called Tory Party unity. Suella Braverman, she who ‘dreamed of refugees on a plane to Rwanda’, was included. As was Steve Baker an extreme Brexiteer who substituted for “Monocle-Mogg’. Sunak even took on the notorious Sir Gavin Williamson - that serial baby-faced, failure from previous regimes and keeper of Cronus the giant tarantula kept on his desk to intimidate all comers - but he lasted just a few days after being found guilty of bullying. Otherwise they were all there, beaming solidarity and post-Trussian peace. Fronted by Sunakian charm and the calm and balm exterior of Jeremy Hunt, we were told that at last we were in ‘safe hands’.
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