If these are the government’s best ideas, they’d be better off running out of them
From Suella Braverman deciding to ‘start investigating crime’, to Michael Gove’s decision to allow more human filth into British waters – we’ve never wished for less from our government, writes Tom Peck
Reputations, in life and in politics, are hard to shake off. It is still not a year since Rishi Sunak thought that, through the sheer power of his complete lack of personality, he could shake off the Conservatives’ reputation and re-badge them as the party of honesty, professionalism and accountability.
It doesn’t really seem to have worked. For most people, they are still the party of mindbending incompetence and shameless corruption, whose only true passion in life is to argue with itself.
All of which means it’s not immediately clear whether some kind of relaunch is underway. On a quiet bank holiday Monday, the home secretary Suella Braverman announced a bold new plan for the police to actually start investigating crimes again.
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