Attempts at mischief-making fall flat as the PM adopts his man of the people act to be questioned by Harry Cole
he Sun newspaper’s politics show, Never Mind the Ballots, leans heavily on the great soft-comedy moments of golden British TV men-talking, its name pilfered from the Buzzcocks, its graphics from Have I Got News for You.
Sun readers, en masse, seem to have got the memo that Sunak can get a bit tetchy, and a lot of the questions were cheeky and wrong-footing. What, you could hear the hive mind wonder, would make a thin-skinned man show his true colours? Sunak did, however, clarify his position on the ECHR: he doesn’t think the Rwanda plan is in breach of any international law but, should it be, he said: “I believe that border security and controlling illegal migration is more important than our membership of ECHR.”
Someone, somewhere, could have had fun with that, the Arthurian quest for Cole’s kernel of humanity finally realised in a person’s right to smell. Not Sunak, though, who droned on for a bit about how people had a right to walk around their communities without being intimidated, and not even Cole the Smell-Warrior had the va-va-voom to follow up on which smells counted as intimidating and which did not.
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