The wider question, and the real crisis at the heart of it all, is who actually is qualified to be PM? Because we have had 6 PM’s since Brexit, and potentially 7 come the 10 year anniversary. Now I suspect people will take this observation and actually ‘blame’ Brexit itself but my position is that it actually just ripped the lid off what was already a festering wound in our society. Is there any single PM in that period you can look back on and wish they were back in charge? For me the answer is a resounding no.
I have heard people comment that our time in the EU, in which we effectively handed over our law making to Brussels, essentially took the stress testing such a process requires from our domestic politics and ever since we voted to leave, our entire political class running around like headless chickens. And when Truss attempted to try and take a radically different economic position, the system turned on her. Including her own party.
The UK is genuinely in the s*** and there is nobody on the horizon to potentially save us. Even Reform will win not based on people having any faith in Farage but just a sense of how they cannot be any worse.