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Don’t give up the day job: groans all round for Sunak’s budget jokes
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He may be the Tories’ most polished politician. And he may even be a future prime minister. But there is one area where Rishi Sunak definitely falls flat: delivering jokes.
In his 64-minute budget speech on Wednesday, the chancellor attempted a few gags.
Side-splitters, they were not. Instead, MPs were peppered with one-liners from the Christmas cracker school of humour.
There were groans all round when Sunak paid tribute to the new No 2 at the Treasury, Simon Clarke, who was promoted in last month’s reshuffle.
Making light of his own slightly shorter stature, Sunak praised Clarke – who is 6ft 7in inches tall – for his quick work in preparing today’s announcements.
“Completing the spending review in such challenging circumstances was a tall
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