“What are you going to do about this?”
“Whose fault was it?”
"Are you standing or not?!
“Who used the last of the Touche Eclat eye bag concealer?”
Okay, the last of those inquiries might have been the product of a tired mind and too much cheese on toast, but the rest were genuine questions from the Sunday politics shows.
“Everything’s changed,” said the host of the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg at the top of the hour. But had it?
That depended on where one stood after a general election that ripped through politics like a tornado, picking MPs up and casting them out hither and yon. Those who had landed well on a nice soft haystack were full of cheer; the rest not so much.
Victoria Atkins and Robert Jenrick appeared on Kuenssberg’s show to stress how completely uninterested they were in becoming the next Tory leader (Image: free)
The politics shows, like everyone else, were still trying to make sense of it all. On Sky News’ Trevor Phillips on Sunday, the host was swithering between optimism and otherwise.
Speaking of the gracious tributes Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer had exchanged when departing and arriving in Downing Street, Phillips said: “Perhaps we are on the verge of something we used to prize in politics, civility.”
Who knows, he went on, “I may even persuade someone on this programme to give an answer that actually related to the question I’ve asked. Come on, even journalists can dream.” Had Sir Trevor been at the........