This is a global player original podcast. It's three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

And once you start, you just can't stop. I'm not talking about Pringles. I am talking about rhyming.

Once you start seeing the rives, you can't, because the Stama drama has now escalated into a streeting meeting. There is a, about which many people, presumably, are tweeting.

So they're tweeting the streeting meeting in the midst of the Stama drama.

A Prime Minister, of course, who should have been making things calmer.

I'm going to try to stop now, but I'm going to struggle.

So please bear with me.

It was supposed to be, God, anyone else just hear a streets lyric kick in there.

It was supposed to be so easy.

It was supposed to be a sea change. It was supposed to be a sea change.

It was supposed to represent an end to a very overused word,

not least by me, psychodrama.

It was supposed to be the end of psychodrama.

Just two short years ago, when a managerial and unexciting man, whether that's fair or not, that was his public persona, a managerial, competent, process-driven, managerial politician was making his way into Downing Street after a succession of either

morally bankrupt or intellectually inadequate predecessors. Or in the case of Theresa May,

I think a perfectly competent politician who was required to pretend that reality was not reality

as a consequence of the Brexit vote. I have no idea what the history books will have to say

about Rishi Sunak has Prime Minister. It feels already like a punctuation mark, doesn't it? A

semicolon, perhaps. A semicolon of a prime minister. It feels like a

semicolon. I can't think off the top of my head of anything significant that he did. The ridiculous

Rwanda plan. I think he inherited, didn't he, and just refused to put in the bin. He was, I presume,

frightened of the response from people who had absolutely no idea

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