Colleagues pray for Jezza to cut his losses when his four Es fail to kick in
Y ou need charisma to pull off a good con trick. To lull your audience into suspending disbelief. A sleight of hand that makes everyone look elsewhere while the economy stalls and the country suffers its worst fall in living standards since records began.And Jeremy Hunt has no presence.
More an absence. A vacuum where personality is normally found. So for an hour he died on his feet at the dispatch box. Luckily, he didn’t seem to know a thing about it.Hunt’s wife and children were in the visitors’ gallery being minded by MP Lee Anderson for the chancellor’s first budget since his emergency financial statement last November.
Let’s hope they aren’t scarred for life.That previous emergency budget had been to unspook the markets after Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s emergency budget a month or so previously.
It’s getting hard to keep track. The Tories have been playing catchup for a while.Hunt got to his feet just after prime minister’s questions.
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