Rishi Sunak and failure have previously been strangers. Head boy at Winchester, one of England’s grandest private schools. A first in PPE at Oxford, nursery of so many Tory prime ministers, and a Fulbright scholar at Stanford.
He talked his way into one of the safest Conservative seats in the country at the age of 34 and was chancellor before he turned 40.David Cameron once dubbed him “the future of our party” and ascending to Number 10 must have seemed the inevitable next episode of an irresistible story of upward mobility from the suburbs of Southampton to the pinnacle of power.Unfortunately for him, this chapter is being written by Tory members and it doesn’t look as though they will make it a happy one.
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