What’s the difference between Starmer and Sunak?

If we were to build a hybrid politician out of the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition, then which of each party’s main policy stances would he advance and which would be dropped?

Our amalgam – let’s call him Krishi Sumer – would accept the basic permitted spending envelope for any given level of taxation that was set out by Jeremy Hunt the other week. He’d certainly advance strong support for Ukraine and unflinching resistance to the evil ways of Vladimir Putin.

He’d also be a stout supporter of the Union and hammer of the SNP and other Celtic nationalists. On so-called ‘culture war’ matters he would play things low key but probably sit fractionally to the right of centre. He’d be a high-profile backer of the charge towards carbon net zero and keen to publicise this internationally.

On immigration he would say things designed to tell the big chunk of voters who think it is far too high that he feels their pain and shares their frustrations.