When Rishi Sunak speaks, the nation shrugs. There’s no coming back from that | Rafael Behr

Flirting with leaving the European court of human rights has failed to move the dial for the PM, and has highlighted his deficiencies

Rishi Sunak is not a deep-cover agent of the Labour party, but politics might not look very different if the prime minister were on a secret mission to make life easier for Keir Starmer.

To achieve this feat, special operative Sunak would occupy positions expected of a Conservative leader, but in a way that minimised public enthusiasm and maximised division in his own party.