Oh dear, two bad judgments by Rishi Sunak

Trying to remain positive in this country is hard. Rishi Sunak's arrival in Number 10 Downing Street has provided most people - clearly not the Labour opposition or the few Liberal Democrats still in post - with a degree of satisfaction and relief. Yesterday was his big moment and he sounded fine, saying all the right things to please the markets and the Bank of England and his former employer, JP Morgan. But then he announced his hastily drawn-up Cabinet and he revealed two misjudgments which will cause him grief for sometime, perhaps throughout his time as prime minister. First, he sent Suella Braverman back to be Home Secretary after she had resigned following the briefest of sojourns at the Home Office under the Liz Truss government for sending official documents to unofficial end-readers. An extraordinary decision. Can you imagine what the civil servants at the Home Office thought when back she came, all forgiven. Sunak could have given her any other job except the Home Office and the Justice Department if he was determined to include her in his Cabinet. He said he wanted her there because she was experienced in that department. But she had only been Home Secretary for less than six weeks and in that time she warned that a trade deal with India would increase immigration and that was a bad thing. That was a massive PR error which must have angered Truss. No wonder she sacked her as soon as she had an excuse - the emails. But Sunak has still sent her back to one of the highest-profile departments. Not only was it inexplicably poor judgment but he will live to regret it when she says something else off-message in due course. Then there's Penny Mordaunt. Ok, she tried to defeat Sunak for the premiership but he shouldn't have taken his revenge by refusing to give her a better job. He merely sent her packing to do the same job as before, Leader of the Commons. No wonder she looked so pissed off. Again, why did he do it when he could easily have given her something more fancy. Perhaps he doesn't rate her in which case why give her a job at all? Apart from these two misjudgments he brought back all the old Boris Johnson ministers, Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister, Michael Gove as Levelling-up Secretary, etc etc. Where were the fresh, new young, exciting ministers? Perhaps there just aren't any!