Rightly, Rishi Sunak has decided to defend himself against the torrent of abuse, half-truths and unfounded conspiracies spewed out by Boris Johnson and his few remaining outriders in recent days.
In a short digression during his turn at London Tech Week, the prime minister did not hold back: “Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn’t prepared to do because I didn’t think it was right. That was to either overrule the Holac [House of Lords Appointments Commission] committee or to make promises for people. Now, I wasn’t prepared to do that. I didn’t think it was right, and if people don’t like that, then tough.”
Harking back to his pledge to bring integrity, professionalism, and accountability into government, Mr Sunak went on to explain that he wanted to do things differently because he wanted to “change politics, and that’s what I’m doing”.
