I laud former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, aspiring to be our PM soon.

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On 5^th September we should have a new PM, and as it stands, only two candidates are in the field. The members of the Conservative Party might have voted by now or are on the cusp of voting. This post is about Mr Rishi Sunak, who in the beginning had a support of overwhelming number of the MPs.

He has taken a good deal of flak for being, a shouter and a mansplainer, a backstabber, the ship jumper, lofty promise-maker, a green card keeper and his wife, an Indian passport holder.

 The fact of the matter is that there were genuine reasons for his gestures and announcements.

By shouting at the opponent during a debate, he was simply trying to speak a bit louder. He thinks that there are many members of the Party, who are retirees with impaired hearing, need to get his message loud and clear.  Also, at the weekly PM’s Question Time, he would be in a better position than Liz Truss to silence Keir Starmer, the opposition leader.

In the House of Commons to speak louder is very common. I remember Geoffrey Cox, as an Attorney General, would speak in a very loud manner. The Speaker at that time, John Bercow, was even louder than him. Being a shorty fellow, he would stand up and shout at full throttle, turning red in the face. One afternoon, addressing the Attorney-General, he bellowed in a stentorian voice:

“You attorney sit down”.

The Attorney General sat down meekly and did not dare to remind the shouty speaker that he was not an attorney but Attorney General.

To allege that Rishi Sunak is a mansplainer is totally wrong. He is mild as milk.

Also, he is criticised for being a backstabber.  That gesture on his part was quite licit.  By that time it was clear that Boris Johnson’s days as a Prime Minister were numbered. He should be grateful to Sunak by putting him out of misery. Had he not done so, Boris would have lingered on for a few more weeks and suffered more misery.

Sunak was right by jumping the ship. In politics these are the norms. Even right now he is witnessing the ministers and MPs, who gave him resounding backing in the beginning, are openly jumping the ship in droves, including an MP whom he had palmed with £5000 for a party.

 I think he is wrong when he promised that he would scrap any rises in the energy bills. My advice is that he should go further and make a specious statement that all the energy bills would be paid by the state. It would catch Liz Truss on the hop and turbo-charge his campaign.  The aim should be to win the selection at any cost, who cares if he reneged on his pledges after 5^th September. 

Had I been a Tory member, I might have voted for him even knowing very well that his lofty promises are hollow and without any grain of substance. The fact is that he would move heaven and earth to be the PM. Nothing wrong with it.

Rishi involved his both the children in the campaign. He should be acclaimed when he said that Liz Truss would be cutting taxes to mortgage the future of the children and grandchildren. He meant his children as well.

In my candid opinion, if he does not win the selection, he should not be feeling wistful. He is only 42. He should start his struggle anew.