Sunak on Course with Doncaster Races Speech

You might wonder why anyone should be concerned with a Doncaster Races speech by the current Conservatives Prime Minister. Well, it's because only a year ago the last but one Conservatives Prime Minister failed to show up for his speaking event at the Northern Research Group conference. Very poor form. Still, with this event, Mr Sunak already has a better course record than Johnson. Who would have bet on that?

Of course at the 2022 conference the task fell to organiser Graham Robb to announce that Johnson was a non-runner.

We were expecting the Prime Minister. However it has just been confirmed within the last two minutes that he is in Kiev and making a second visit.

We understand that when you are dealing with a world statesman's diary, these kind of events come first.

Whichever way you spin it, these were very kind words about the Statesman President Zelenskiy.

Introduction For the Doncaster Races Speech

So, how was the main runner at this conference? Well, first things first. I did like the introduction to the event's main speaker by the Darlington MP Peter Gibson. A brief and succinct introduction that built expectation until it closed with the words, "Rishi Sunak". Excellent.

But a word for the conference organisers. Why did you play that wishy-washy music? Surely you realised that was a poor excuse for music pertaining to vigour and boldness? Stagecraft is everything at these events and this was poor.

Clearly this was a speech created for a Northern group of Conservatives MPs and it aimed to list just about every piece of industrial activity in the area. And that's what we heard before the Doncaster Races speech covered the all-familiar matter of the Sunak 5 pledges.

This proved to be a short and effective speech for his party loyalists in the North. I'd like to imagine the Prime Minister answered questions and debated matters with these loyal MPs, but I sense that his handlers whisked him away again.

Flat Race Course Speech

Yet besides the brevity and the directness of the 5 pledges there remains a blandness about a Sunak speech. It's the same blandness that comes across with a Keir Starmer or an Ed Miliband speech. Perhaps we've been spoiled with the rhetorical skills of Cameron and Johnson. Nick Clegg was no public speaking slouch either. Still, there we have it. A Sunak Doncaster Races speech is as emotionally drained and soulless as all his other public oratory. Flat, and that's where Sunak was in harmony with the Doncaster track. Yes, it's clear that he's working on boosting his expressive output. But it's not there yet.

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