Rishi Sunak is our third Prime Minister in four months. That he is the least worst of the trio is not much praise given the other two set such a low bar.
It comes to something when a government which is not visibly disintegrating before our eyes is hailed as some kind of success. Boris Johnson was never a serious PM, while Liz Truss was just an appalling one.
Mr Johnson’s premiership was a catalogue of cock-ups, from trying to rig Parliamentary rules to protect cronies to illegal lockdown parties which broke rules he had imposed.
But in 49 disaster-filled days Ms Truss did more long-term damage to our economy than even Mr Johnson managed.
Mr Sunak’s mission is to correct her mistakes, yet his judgement is already in question. Re-appointing Suella Braverman as Home Secretary six days after she was forced to resign from the job was not the action of a wise man.
Nor was funding his leadership campaign with £141,000 of money linked to oil and gas. There is now a big question mark over whether he will honour our commitment to battling climate change.
Two ministers focused on it have been demoted and Mr Sunak is snubbing the COP27 summit. It would not be wise either for pensioners and benefit claimants to be denied the inflationary rises they so desperately need.
Mr Sunak was popular as the Covid Chancellor because he kept giving money away. But his record was not unblemished.
He tried to end the furlough scheme early, which would have cost many workers their jobs. And his Eat Out to Help Out wheeze paid infected people to sit together in restaurants so they could spread more Covid around.
The Tories claim the grown-ups are back in charge, yet he has only been an MP for seven years and is the youngest PM in two centuries. We have swapped a PM with the economic skills of a toddler for a political teenager.
Mr Sunak says he will stick to the 2019 Tory manifesto. Yet the world has changed since then. And he has no mandate from the British people to govern.
That is why an honourable PM, a PM with the integrity Mr Sunak says he possesses,would have called a general election.
Yes, that might have meant the fourth prime minister in five months. But better for Britain to get the right one.
Watch it, Dom
Dominic Cummings prefers to give advice, not take it. But for your own safety, Dom, we implore you to listen to us today.
We reveal the ex-No10 aide is renovating a £161,000 cottage on the island of Lindisfarne. But watch it if you’re driving down to the causeway for one of your famous eye tests – because it floods twice a day.
Remember, Dom, this is Holy Island. Not the Holy See.
