>>Both Sunak and Starmer are politicians who do not want to alienate any potential voter.
Certainly true of Starmer. Not so with Sunak who is behaving as if he is hostage to the extreme right and ultra-Brexity people in his party.
This seems a mad strategy to me (therefore a good thing!) in that he seems careless of the centrist Conservative voters, many of whom do not approve of Rwanda etc. I use Rwanda as an example - he's behaving as if a majority of the electorate approve and I don't think they do.
An explanation for this might be that Sunak is at least as concerned with defending his own position as with his own party's election prospects, although he may think that it has some appeal in the red wall seats. It's not lost on me that 30p Lee transitioned effortlessly from Labour to hard right Tory in one bound, and is now MP for such a constituency.
Meanwhile, I imagine Starmer has Napoleon's advice in mind - never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.
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