The Prime Minister is more of a President these days. He’s strutting the stuff on the world stage. He’s making deals. He’s signing agreements. He’s making decisions on big issues.
It’s a field day for a Labour acolyte. Blair House is at full power. The guns are all blazing. The flag is at full mast. It’s a PR dream for the party.
The job of a Prime Minister is hard because it takes graft to get it done and, as they say, a week is a long time in politics. It only fits particular people because they aim for it.
The professional class isn’t necessarily beloved in the UK, maybe because its position is as a prosecutor of business. It entails large transactions, serious legal cases, and work that makes life tick.
The job of Prime Minister is above all, but may not touch on all during his or her term. It entails particular meetings with people from business, overseas states, and sector leaders to their opposition, front-bench, and party.
The list isn’t endless, but it’s gruelling. The late nights aren’t filled with the normal television habits. It takes a special kind of discipline to anticipate the box it must feel like to be in.
Whether it’s a late night meeting, or a pile of paperwork, it’s all a part of our considerations of our place in the world and such men and women have to call the shots.
It takes stamina to get it all done
The relative worth of each incumbent is put to pundits to articulate, and we each have our views too. The truth is we expect a lot and feel we have little to go on in terms of results.
However, it’s meant to encompass us all. It’s what a Prime Minister learns on the campaign trail, or at their constituency desk as they work on their inbox.
The NHS doesn’t cover all our healthcare provision and neither does it interest the healthy. A lot of us have finished education and may not have been to a state school.
The reality is those who work, and conduct their business here, meet people of many different stripes and walks of life. It’s all included in the brief of a Prime Minister.
It matters, and it’s their job to sift through it. Their task is to see what they can do with the time they have given to them.