It's not really his fault that the economy is barely out of recession.
Covid, Brexit and Radon Liz (her again) have seen to that.
But these days, Sunak can't even control the things within his agency. He is a man almost entirely without political instincts; a piece of unwanted flotsam being tossed carelessly from side to side. Time and again his character is exposed and he is found wanting.
What he is even doing in No 10 is something exercising the minds of almost every Tory MP, many of whom are actively trying to remove him. The rest have merely decided it would look even worse to get rid of him.
So Sunak gets to stay. Loved and admired by no one, not even his cabinet colleagues. Especially his cabinet colleagues. They are the ones who see his shortcomings close up, whose ambitions and careers are sacrificed on his altar.
Whether this can last till the next election is touch and go. Because the more we get to see of Sunak's character, the less there is to like.
And at yesterday's prime minister's questions we may just have scraped the barrel.
Keir Starmer began the session by welcoming Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna, to the public gallery.
Esther wasn't in her seat just yet, but she soon would be, as a guest of her local Warrington MP, Charlotte Nichols. The Labour leader spoke of his admiration for Esther Ghey.
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