D
oes Rishi Sunak deserve his glowing reputation for economic competence?
If the reports putting him among the “economy first” group of ministers in cabinet are true – and they come from reliable sources – then it’s highly questionable.
Throughout the course of the pandemic, this group has argued in cabinet for things like the early lifting of restrictions in the summer, and against a two-week autumn “circuit breaker” that might have stopped the second wave in its track as it was getting going.
