![]() It doesn’t hurt that he looks like Eddie Redmayne would play him in a future biopic about his time running a province in Iraq, either. Rather than miring himself in the Brexit bog by making long, dry speeches on why a deal with the EU is necessary to secure economic stability, he has been trekking up and down the country with a wobbly “hand-held” camera, flashing a toothy, slightly lopsided grin to the public and inviting people to “chat”. Rory Stewart, the freshly appointed international development secretary who no one outside of the most insular Westminster circles had even heard of a week ago, has grasped what is required of him very quickly indeed. The rules of the game are very different to last time, and different characters are likely to fare well. ![]() ![]() To stand a chance of stopping the Brexit Party in its tracks (the thinking goes), the Conservatives need not another colourless technocrat, but a charismatic amateur. ![]() While they can’t quite bring themselves to peddle his gung-ho visions of post-Brexit Britain (most are still very wary about the prospect of no-deal), they can and will do everything in their power to prove to the country that they too would make a decent drinking buddy. Dry professionalism is out, likeability is in.Ĭonservative hopefuls now believe that the only way to beat the resuscitated Nigel Farage and his emergent Brexit Party is to play him at his own game. In 2019, after three draining years of the Maybot, the flavour has changed dramatically.
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