Of course, one of the difficulties Mr. Sunak faces is that – on a practical level – it would not be as simple as ever to resign as chancellor, resign as an MP and go and live in the United States. Why; He no longer has a Green Card, allowing him easy entry and accommodation. So this is not on the agenda. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 6:28 Chancellor shows “lack of crisis” Now any trip after these famous US sympathetic border agents at every airport will bring a knot in the Sunak group after questions about the legitimacy of its Green Card as a member of parliament arrived at the White House newsroom on Friday. The Ministry of Finance says all the rules have been followed. Let’s hope that Homeland Security agrees every time. The recent audit is unparalleled
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However, some allies acknowledge that many, many choices went through his mind yesterday during the seven hours between confirming that he would be fined by the Met for violating lockdown laws and releasing a brief statement indicating his determination. to continue as chancellor. It’s not hard to understand why it might be funk. In recent days we have seen the opposition shine through the personal details of his financial and family arrangements: unpleasant on a scale that does not resemble anything he has faced so far in his relatively short political career and meteoric rise. However, he may be unnecessarily exposed for his apparent personal aversion to the behavior of the team he mentioned during the partygate: he disappeared in Devon when Mr. Johnson had a problem and codified criticism of his boss in interviews. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 5:12 What do fines mean for MM? It is Mr. Sunak himself who once revealed that he was paying for his own renovation of Downing Street. This is why yesterday’s fine will be so personally damaging: it suddenly brought him to the same level as Mr. Johnson in the eyes of the law for behavior that previously let people know he felt uncomfortable. There have been so many awkward moments lately. Deep anger over questions about his wife The decision was made to sympathize with Will Smith’s Oscar’s night slap, signaling a deep anger at reporters asking his wife questions. Anger is understandable to colleagues, this answer is less understandable. Mr Sunak apparently did not consider his wife to have a valid line of inquiry into journalists such as Sky’s Jayne Secker in a Russian-based company. Few in public life would agree that this subject matter can be permanently out of bounds if you intend to hold the highest office. It was not for the family next door. Follow the Daily Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker What other clues do we have about his instinct? An interesting picture came when Sky News revealed its decision to continue donating 44 44,000 a year privately to Winchester College. His vulnerability did not come from the donation itself – donations to help those who are unable to pay the full fees are an echo of Thatcher Assisted Places – but his stubborn refusal to mark the box “without publicity”. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 3:14 Sunak requests referral to the Independent Advisor Would Winchester really have rejected the money if the chancellor had refused to allow them to say publicly where it came from? Mr. Sunak seems to have thought that this action should not have provoked criticism that it would inevitably bring, although the attack on private schools is one of the few focal points of the Labor political platform. His team would quickly tell him that he would be armed by opponents and selected by the media, and that publicity in court for this donation would mean that you volunteered to fight actively and aggressively on this turf. Will Sunak continue to try to defy political gravity? This stubbornness – and the belief that the political debate should be better than this – is reminiscent of former Labor leader Ed Miliband. His assistants explicitly advised him not to eat the famous bacon sandwich in May 2014, as everyone feared a public relations accident. Mr Miliband ignored the warning because, in essence, he believed that politics and political journalism should be better than that. The photos that followed inevitably went viral. Mr Miliband could not defy political weight on that occasion or in the next general election. Can Mr. Sunak manage what the former Labor leader failed to do, or will he begin to listen more carefully to some of those who advise him on the sometimes grim, ruthless unpleasant realities of power?
