Polite Sunak is our very own public school Forest Gump
The Independent|February 03, 2023
Rishi Sunak evidently wants the world to know that he has a very boring kitchen. The golden wallpaper days are over. There has been a grey revolution. Grey lamps, grey sofas, grey paint, even grey art. It would not have been a huge shock if, in the middle of the prime minister’s interview with Piers Morgan, Mrs Hinch had wandered in to wipe down the mantelpiece with a bottle of vinegar spray.
TOM PECK
Polite Sunak is our very own public school Forest Gump

And over 40 rather unexciting minutes with Piers Morgan in the Downing Street kitchen, he even tried grey answers - though quite a few of them were somewhat see-through.

Interior designers like to say that the inside of a person's house is the clearest window into their soul, and they might even be right. Last month Mrs Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty, also invited Tatler magazine to have a look around, where she wisely namedropped the very high-end designers who had set to work creating what looks like a deliberately tedious masterpiece.

And that really might be the clearest window into the Sunak soul. Everyone knows there is a lot of money involved but no one can really work out how or why or what it's all about. As he sat there doing his polite best, he looked never more like the head boy of Winchester College going through the motions of his Oxbridge interview. Not really saying anything of any interest, but never really doubting that it was all going to work out just fine.

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