{"id":5298,"date":"2022-10-27T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2022-10-28T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:47:56","slug":"who-would-be-rishi-sunak-waking-up-to-the-in-tray-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/10\/27\/who-would-be-rishi-sunak-waking-up-to-the-in-tray-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rishi Sunak faces the political equivalent of climbing Mount Everest.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Professor Matt Goodwin has been pretty busy this month commentating on the ever-changing U.K. political landscape. How will Prime Minister Rishi Sunak succeed where his predecessor Liz Truss failed? <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Imagine waking up as <a id=\"mol-7dada640-53e2-11ed-b0a3-d763d7acd838\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/rishi-sunak\/index.html\">Rishi Sunak<\/a> this morning. Yes, you are now unexpectedly Prime Minister, thanks to a series of events that unfolded with dizzying speed in recent days. But your fractious parliamentary party has spent weeks or months at one another&#8217;s throats, and in the words of one of your own MPs, it has become ungovernable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Your rivals, the\u00a0<a id=\"mol-7dbff5c0-53e2-11ed-b0a3-d763d7acd838\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/labour\/index.html\">Labour<\/a> Party, are more than 30 points ahead in the polls, increasingly seen by voters as the more competent and trustworthy on every single issue. Many of your own party rank-and-file do not believe you deserve your new job, and would rather see\u00a0<a id=\"mol-7d786570-53e2-11ed-b0a3-d763d7acd838\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/boris_johnson\/index.html\">Boris Johnson<\/a> inside No 10 instead.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/512\/goodwin-matthew\">Professor Goodwin<\/a>&#8216;s full Daily Mail piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-11350231\/Professor-MATTHEW-GOODWIN-Rishi-Sunak-waking-tray-hell.html\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How will Rishi Sunak lead Britain? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/podcasts\/2022\/10\/27\/how-will-rishi-sunak-lead-britain\">Listen here<\/a> to Matt Goodwin on the Economist podcast\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Tories get 6% \u201cRishi bounce\u201d <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/london-post.co.uk\/tories-get-6-rishi-bounce-new-gb-news-poll-reveals\/\">Read here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Matt Goodwin has been pretty busy this month commentating on the ever-changing U.K. political landscape. How will Prime Minister Rishi Sunak succeed where his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/10\/27\/who-would-be-rishi-sunak-waking-up-to-the-in-tray-from-hell\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":5324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}