Chris Mullin

British politics has become a nasty game of Gotcha

We live in the age of the feeding frenzy

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As Tony Blair once remarked, British politics has become a game of Gotcha. I am, to put it mildly, no fan of Suella Braverman, but for the life of me I cannot get excited about this latest piece of nonsense to do with her speeding ticket. It is certainly no resigning matter.

When I have made this point, I have generally received a favourable response. But there are some dissenters. One response was that, ‘We’re talking about Braverman, Chris. How do we get rid of her?’ To which there is an obvious riposte: ‘At a general election, perhaps?’

We live in the age of the feeding frenzy. Originally a tabloid phenomenon it has long since infected mainstream journalism. Scarcely a G7 or G20 summit passes without the world’s media being treated to the sight of the British press pack hijacking press conferences with the demands that the prime minister provide an immediate response to some relatively trivial domestic incident.

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