An ugly Prime Minister’s Questions today which will probably make the Tories wish they didn’t have to call an election for at least five years – and the public wish they didn’t have to endure the campaign that’s heading their way very soon. Inevitably, it was about racism, and inevitably Rishi Sunak had a miserable time.
Starmer replied that he had changed his party but Sunak was scared of his
Sunak did not try to pre-empt the session by announcing that Tory donor Frank Hester’s money would be going to charity, or any other measure suggesting he was taking the matter more seriously than yesterday’s slow crawl towards admitting Hester’s remarks about Diane Abbott were racist. Instead, his defensive tactics were ones we know all too well, because Sunak uses them almost every week: he tried to suggest that Labour was at least as bad as the Tories on racism.
There is much merit in repeating a line in politics: it greatly increases the chances of voters hearing it and maybe even remembering it.
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