Opinion: The rise and rise of Rishi Sunak is as fascinating as Boris Johnson's struggle to mimic Churchill

The chancellor has made an impressive start in the second most important job in government, but there will inevitably be hard times and hard decisions ahead

While it is true that Sunak is coming under pressure, even from his own MPs, over the relative paucity of help for the self-employed, and will probably act on that next week, I think McDonnell has judged the public mood wrongly, and O’Grady and McCluskey have got it right.

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