POLITICAL SKETCH
Rishi Sunak scores an own goal at Accrington Stanley
The prime minister’s meet-and-greet event turned into an excruciating embarrassment
The prime minister has renamed what used to be called a speech as a “PM Connect event”
When people describe the prime minister as the “most powerful person in the country”, it might sound like a cliché but it’s also true. That’s exactly what he is. What he says goes. If there’s something he really wants to do, there’s not really anyone who can stop him.
I say this only to point out that, when he’s turning in little circles around a tiny coffee table inside a very small room at Accrington Stanley Football Club, doing something that used to be called a speech but which he has decided to call a “PM Connect event” instead, there’s absolutely no one making him do it.
All this excruciating embarrassment, the almost violent awkwardness of it, it’s all a matter of personal choice. It
