In a way, conservatives in general tend to come across as looking at life as being about ‘more’; more votes, more airtime, and more history-making moments.
It isn’t true to say this is what ‘conservatism’ is about, but in the UK we see it so often we might as well say it is.
The speech by Rishi Sunak at the steps of Number 10 took place under dreary skies, and his tone echoed tired times.
He announced his intention to win his party another election victory, and so the nation groaned. It’s time for Tories to get more; more PM’s, more policies, and more interviews.
In actual fact, Boris Johnson is the last elected Prime Minister on record.
While Liz Truss took over – and Sunak stepped in shortly after – it will mean the next Prime Minister is going to be Johnson’s successor.
The question is if anyone has the ideas good enough to prove us a way forward.
In large part, his much-hyped Premiership didn’t get off the ground too well.
It’s solely due to the Covid pandemic, of course, but his “levelling up” agenda fell far short of reality, and he fell through too.
His successor has a hard task ahead of them.
The slogan Johnson had – “Get Brexit Done” – is now replaced by, “Get The Job Done”. The public are tired of laziness, and tardiness in the way of its politics right now.
The urgency Johnson had raised now needs to be believed on and worked through by whoever wins the next election on July 4.
