New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt should be Prime Minister, not least for the Conservatives' sake | IanBirrell
Yet both present risk when Britain craves good government and stability. Sunak is smart and usually sensible. His stature has surged since Truss’s catastrophic mini-budget. Yet he fought a poor leadership campaign, raising issues over his political skills. And questions remain over why he clung to a United States Green Card for six years as an MP, even as Chancellor, and his wealthy wife’s use of non-domicile tax status – potential landmines for a leader confronting serious economic crisis.
There are suggestions again of Ben Wallace leveraging his popularity into Downing Street, although he is also largely untested, despite an undoubtedly effective time at defence. Yet perhaps Truss has inadvertently empowered her own successor in. He seems, after all, to have already taken over the Government by setting its new course while showing the ability to communicate effectively – an attribute so sorely missing from her government. He has served in the foreign office.
And he claims his leadership ambitions have been “clinically excised”, although few are convinced. One thing is clear: his party urgently needs to restore competence and trust in both Britain and their badly-listing government. This means firing Truss – and fast, rather than prolonging the agonies of this botched appointment in such turbulent times. If Hunt stepped up to the premiership and governed true to himself, he might just stand a chance of salving some of the wounds ripped open by the Tories – and perhaps even of blunting the looming electoral disaster that deservedly confronts his party.
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