Is he a bot or merely incapable of thinking for himself?

You’re right - his one answer seems, in his mind, to fit all but no doubt it’s just a coverup for the fact that there is no suitable answer/excuse/reason/plan.

I had been hoping for more from him.

Have to agree. Rewind and replay seems to be a standard response. Not impressive.

I was disappointed with his responses to Laura's questions this morning. He really is robot like. Is there a real person in there somewhere?

I think he comes across as very calm, doesn’t rise to the bait as interviewers try to catch him out.

Far better than the waffling of Mr. Johnson

I agree GG. Calmness is a valuable attribute. It’s unlikely he’ll be talking about Peppa Pig any time soon.

Obviously he’s better than Johnson, could anybody be worse, but that doesn’t mean he’s good.

I didn't expect anything very much from Sunak; he is an economist and his main interest in life is making money.

He has no concept of the hardship mortgage rises are about to inflict on people because he deals only in figures and thinks stabilising the economy will solve everything.

I did expect better speech from a Winchester/Oxford educated politician : I'm gonna, I wanna; everything's gonna be OK. No substance in anything he says.

Too good to be true; too clever to be caught.

Nothing is moving forward.
Everything is either stagnant, or getting worse.
I don’t know whether I should feel sorry for Mr Sunak, perhaps he would have done a better job at a different time.

The (Kuenssberg) interview this morning was awful. Sunak just talked over her, not letting her do her job at all. It looks bad when politicians do that - it's so rude, and gives the impression that they can't answer the question but have to stick to their soundbites as per the spin.

Very disappointed with the attitude of the Prime Minister and his party. They have no understanding it would seem of what is really happening in the country

He is inadequate for the post, and his inability to think on his feet shows his inadequacy. The Tory party understood this as he was never their choice for leader, they simply chose him out of desperation after Johnson and Truss.

I don’t actually think of him as the PM.
It’s like when a failing football team gets a Caretaker Manager.
He’s a Caretaker PM

He promised so much and can deliver zilch.

Sunak was supposedly the stand-out candidate on the in-person hustings for PM.
Surely he can't have been robot-like then?

Maybe the actual job is too much for him and he's relying on advisors.

Doodledog

The (Kuenssberg) interview this morning was awful. Sunak just talked over her, not letting her do her job at all. It looks bad when politicians do that - it's so rude, and gives the impression that they can't answer the question but have to stick to their soundbites as per the spin.

Laura Kuenssberg consistently talked over the PM, wouldn’t let him finish his answers because they were not the answers she wanted.

Neither, he is using a tactic that you surely have noticed other politicians using when they don't want to answer the question they were actually asked. They just repeat their answer to a former question, whether it is relevent or not.

The late king of Jordan had the honesty to admit that when journalists asked him questions he did not find it convenient to anwser he "just started quickly to talk of something else, and no-one ever interrupted me and said, Your Majesty, that wasn't what I asked you."

I imagine most of us are old enough to remember King Hussein deploying this tactic with enormous success.

He just parroted answers he had learned on LK this morning. Why keep regurgitating the same over and over again. I wished LK could have told him to shut up. I expected more qute frankly.

I do know that this point is trivial,and probably, irrelevant but I cannot take seriously a middle aged man who dresses like a schoolboy whose mother refuses to buy him a new school uniform although he has grown out of the old one.

His ridiculous skinny trousers, too tight jacket and tiny tie are just awful.. He is not overweight so should not be wearing too tight clothes.

If I were keen to see him re-elected I would take him to M&S and buy him some new clothes in the proper size to makje him look more grown up.

As it is I do not want to see him re-elected (and for good reasons' not trivial ones) so I'm not going to insist he follows my advice, although his ridiculous appearance is a national embarrassment.

GrannyGravy13

Doodledog

The (Kuenssberg) interview this morning was awful. Sunak just talked over her, not letting her do her job at all. It looks bad when politicians do that - it's so rude, and gives the impression that they can't answer the question but have to stick to their soundbites as per the spin.

Laura Kuenssberg consistently talked over the PM, wouldn’t let him finish his answers because they were not the answers she wanted.

I didn't see it like that at all. She asked a question, he answered a totally different one, and she tried to bring him back on track. He refused to stop talking, even when she was telling him that he wasn't answering. What was she supposed to do - just let him spout propaganda for the whole interview?

I didn't expect anything very much from Sunak; he is an economist and his main interest in life is making money.

You're doing economists a disservice there, eazybee because making money is not at all what economics is about.

One definition: The social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems.

Making money is completely unrelated to economics.

What was she supposed to do - just let him spout propaganda for the whole interview?

Of course she was, Doodledog. That's what most journalists seem to do and government ministers expect it..

varian

I do know that this point is trivial,and probably, irrelevant but I cannot take seriously a middle aged man who dresses like a schoolboy whose mother refuses to buy him a new school uniform although he has grown out of the old one.

His ridiculous skinny trousers, too tight jacket and tiny tie are just awful.. He is not overweight so should not be wearing too tight clothes.

If I were keen to see him re-elected I would take him to M&S and buy him some new clothes in the proper size to makje him look more grown up.

As it is I do not want to see him re-elected (and for good reasons' not trivial ones) so I'm not going to insist he follows my advice, although his ridiculous appearance is a national embarrassment.

Now come on, varian I wouldn’t go that far. We’ve just had a PM whose appearance was a national embarrassment, and Sunak is at least a 50% improvement on that, he definitely knows how to comb his hair, and he looks clean.
However Sunak isn’t a natural front man, he gets easily flustered and doesn’t have much of the sense of humour or repartee you need to be a successful interviewee, I’m sure that’s why he reverts to script so frequently.

varian

I do know that this point is trivial,and probably, irrelevant but I cannot take seriously a middle aged man who dresses like a schoolboy whose mother refuses to buy him a new school uniform although he has grown out of the old one.

His ridiculous skinny trousers, too tight jacket and tiny tie are just awful.. He is not overweight so should not be wearing too tight clothes.

If I were keen to see him re-elected I would take him to M&S and buy him some new clothes in the proper size to makje him look more grown up.

As it is I do not want to see him re-elected (and for good reasons' not trivial ones) so I'm not going to insist he follows my advice, although his ridiculous appearance is a national embarrassment.

Perhaps he’s managing to avoid VAT on children’s clothes!