I love reading The Spectator, not just for the witty writing but for the different perspective, a perspective, I should add, that I don’t always agree with but always admire for the flair with which it’s presented.
Not surprisingly, this week’s issue, which just arrived on my iPad, is full of stories about the new prime minister. Toby Young, writing in the back of the book – the part of the magazine I read first, and most enthusiastically – applauds the great breakthrough Rishi Sunak’s appointment represents, noting that “25 years ago someone with his characteristics could never have become prime minister.” Two sentences later he writes: “I am thinking, of course, of his height.”
At 5’7” Sunak apparently ranks as one of Britain’s shortest prime ministers.
