"What hell is the life of politics. Look around that cabinet table: each person is confronted with near impossible-portfolios without the means to do what they know is needed. After another nightmare week, many in the dark watches must ask themselves why the hell they gave their lives to this brutally thankless task. Their inheritance was even more ruinous than feared: they were bequeathed landmines, dishonest traps and gaping holes."
"Brexit is emerging as even more economically crippling than expected, now losing the exchequer 80bn a year. They are blighted by bad luck: the Trump destroyer landed on their watch. What worse mishap than a prison officer setting free a refused asylum-seeker sex offender? Small boat arrivals feel unstoppable. An unfortunate deputy leadership election right now was bound to give Keir Starmer a bruising."
The cabinet confronts near-impossible portfolios without the means to enact necessary measures. Ministers inherited ruinous problems described as landmines, dishonest traps and gaping holes. Brexit is producing larger economic damage than expected, costing the exchequer 80bn a year. External shocks and mishaps have compounded woes, from the Trump destroyer incident to a prison officer releasing a refused asylum-seeker sex offender. Small boat arrivals appear unstoppable and electoral setbacks are mounting, including an 11% vote share at the Caerphilly Senedd by-election. Public disillusionment and despair about national direction are deepening. Keir Starmer is widely unpopular despite a reputation for decency, and Labour made notable policy missteps on cuts affecting pensioners and disabled people.
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