To wish Rishi Sunak were PM

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Just that, really, interested in your opinions,

He is too inexperienced imho. However, he may well be a good candidate for the future.
Meanwhile, I think Keir Starmer is doing a good job as leader of the opposition.

He's my mp. Not impressed. YABU

Well all I see is that he's a much more confident liar than BJ who bumbles through but somehow is still believed 🤦‍♀️ don't get me wrong I like Rishi Sunak I think there is a bit of me that thinks he can sometimes be reassuring but ... no more Tories please!!

I'm impressed by Sunak

• he hasn't much competition in this Cabinet for being intelligent, competent and able to at least sound like he has compassion & understanding for ordinary people

Maybe even more important, he is present and doing his job

Boris skived off being PM - as he did when London Mayor - and then didn't attend the early COBR meetings on COVID

Since then, he's been ill for weeks and seems physically unfit to do his job for some time yet
That's sad for him personally,
.... but bad for the country, because we need an active PM fully in charge and able to make key decisions

• Raab doesn't seem to have that authority

So looks rather a vacuum at the top
(Mind you, there'd still be a vacuum there if Boris had returned ! )

I like Rishi and think he's doing well as Chancellor but he needs more experience.

I think Boris is doing a good job in horrendous circumstances, obviously not helped by having had the virus.

No way. Bozza is our quickest route to a Labour government.

I hope you haven't put money on that? Boris didn't appear to put people off when Labour were wiped out in the last election.

Boris didn't appear to put people off when Labour were wiped out in the last election

The world was a different place then. Post plague, post Brexit and mid recession he’s going to have a much tougher task on his hands if he’s still PM by the next election.

Dishy rishi. Best bit of eye candy in tory party by a mile!

He is a nasty piece of work like some of his colleagues.

The cabinet is filled with inexperienced , incompetent and in many cases deeply unpleasant people who were selected by Johnson purely on the basis of how 'Brexity' they were. That Sunak is better than most of them than covering up his inadequacy is the most that can be said for him. People seem to be lapping it up though .

Yeah, he's a Tory. They're all scum.

He's very smooth and comes across well but I don't like the being prepared to lose lives to protect business view so I'd sooner stick with someone who wants to follow the scientists

He's my MP. He's an appalling little careerist, who will put himself and his reputation above all else.
That said, he can deliver a speech, and has several well cut suits. That seems to be enough to get his name into the PM sphere these days.

Seem like a smarmy little prick

Well heaven knows it's more than the current holder of the role can do jock...

On one of the previous threads, posters living in his constituency said positive things so I’d be interested in why a couple of PPs are negative this time?

He seems a bit more normal and less politiciany as others have said, but it never lasts. I’m sure people would prefer honesty and directness rather than the usual evasiveness from almost all politician when difficult questions are asked.

The richest person in the House of Commons. Yup, super normal.

YABU Boris was elected to be the leader .
Last time I looked we lived in a democracy.

YABU Boris was elected to be the leader .
Last time I looked we lived in a democracy

He was “elected” by 100k Tory party members. It’s not my idea of democracy.

His mum ran a corner chemist shop
his dad is still a GP
he married very well
he became an MP in 2015
apparently civil servants of all hues rate him for taking advice
happily married
parents happily married
no family skeletons

Johnson must massively regret promoting him

It will be interesting to see how popular he is in a couple of years time when we are having to pay back the costs of his munificence.

I'm sure all that cash hasn't changed him at all. And he has absolutely no interest in protecting the interests of the super-wealthy. Definitely an ordinary man of the people.

While you were looking at our democratic system flymetothemoon, you'll no doubt have noticed that it allows a person to become PM without the electorate having voted for them in that capacity. And that's how two of our last three entered the job.

Does come across well wonder if he may be one for future
Not impressed so far with new labour leader don't see him as much competition as yet

Somebody on MN said a few weeks back, that he sounds like Will from the Inbetweeners.

Its hard to unhear it now!

I think it would be a very good idea