It’s part of the crisis of Westminster politics that both main parties have very limited numbers who are actually any good at politics. Its not just about right and left, although that remains important, but whether politicans are actually any good at politics in the first place.
Sunak managed to announce the cancellation of HS2 to Manchester at the Tory Conference in Manchester. Not even the The Thick of It had that as a plot line.
Meanwhile ahead of the Labour Conference in Liverpool Starmer has told Granada that he is happy to write for The S*n, speak to them etc. That would be the paper boycotted on Merseyside after Hillsborough (and for many other reasons).
The policies are reactionary and wrong in both cases but it is the sheer inepitude of the politicans making them and the timing that stands out as much.
Both Sunak and Starmer have little experience as MPs or of Parliamentary politics.
Perhaps there was a reason why the Independent Labour Party was formed in those shadowy parts knowa as the provinces (Bradford) exactly one hundred years ago by people who had plenty of experience of grassroots politics
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