Bullet point by bullet point, 2023 kicked off with Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer swearing their respective oaths at the altar of pragmatism. Trust them and the economy would grow, NHS waiting lists would shorten and the small boats would stop. It was the prime minister’s emphasis on the latter that drove the greatest wedge between our technocrats-in-chief — otherwise political observers heralded the return of politics by agreed dullness: near total convergence on matters managerial.
With Sunak and Starmer at the helm, British politics has taken a ruthless turn in 2023
