THE only exciting thing about Rishi Sunak being the new prime minister is that we have thankfully got rid of Boris Johnson (for now) and Elizabeth Truss.

But he is still a Conservative, not elected by us the public.

He may well be slick in his appearance and has a sense of direction. However, he is still surrounded by Tories, who see being a minister as a bit of fun, and well paid at that.

The value of the Pound has strengthened, but only because Sunak is seen as better than the other two.

But he is as guilty as the rest of placing the UK into the awful position we are all now in.

He is a Brexiteer – he and Johnson mishandled Covid. He has history.

He has already warned us we are going to face hard times. Why? Because of Tory mismanagement.

He conveniently falls back on the fact that Boris Johnson won the last general election with a convincing majority. Sunak didn’t, nor did Truss.

We are fast approaching Christmas and the New Year. Therefore, not much will be achieved.

Next May we will have the coronation of King Charles the third to smokescreen the upheaval of the government’s, presumably disastrous, decision making.

We have some local elections, when presumably the Conservatives will to lose many seats. I do wonder if we will have some constituency by-elections or more independent MPs.

I don’t think the other political parties would welcome any defections now from a Conservative MP. Unless they were a Remainer I write this as a realist and merely as an observer.

Of course, I may well have it all wrong.

It is just an opinion.

RICHARD GRANT Burley