‘Political landscape is rotten to its core’

Watching the news on Wednesday evening, I couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for the beleaguered (now former) Prime Minister.

Tory bullying tactics were clearly in full force and it was akin to watching scurrying rats, bewildered, on a sinking ship.

It made me think why – just why – would anyone willingly take over Boris Johnson’s poisoned chalice? It was always a thankless, impossible task.

Liz Truss was on a hiding to nothing, immediately onto a loss, picking up the pieces from the Covid-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing war in Ukraine, effectively acting as the fall guy as the pack of cards came tumbling down.

Labour – now a shoo-in for 10 Downing Street – will come back to power under an underwhelming leader in Sir Keir Starmer but it’s nothing more than a hollow victory for them, so the all too obvious fanfare which will come should be taken with a pinch of salt.

It will be a win secured through their rival party’s incompetence as opposed to Labour displaying forward-thinking, gamechanging manifestos.

The whole political landscape is rotten to its core.