‘Out Of Narratives’: Ian Dunt Rips Cabinet Reshuffle As Desperate TV Show Plotline

Journalist Ian Dunt delivered a scathing critique of former Prime Minister David Cameron’s shock appointment as Foreign Secretary by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Monday, likening the move to a desperate plot twist in a declining TV show, criticising a lack of direction and hope in the current government.

Dunt expressed his astonishment with an analogy: “You know what this honestly reminds me of? It reminds me of, you know, like a TV program that’s just started to lose its way and they’re just like, you’re in like, sort of season eight or something, and they’re just like, ‘you know what, we’ve got no chance here, we’re going to get cancelled, so let’s just make this character murder someone.’ Or this one turns out to be the long-lost sister of this one. You just throw it out there. ‘Let’s just see if anything will save us.’ That’s what the David Cameron move looks like. It’s like we are out of hope, we’re out of narratives.”

He went on to question the government’s identity and direction: is technocratic, populist, right or left-wing, or a return to to the 30-year consensus — the status quo Sunak promised to overthrow in his speech at the Conservative Party Conference.

Dunt pointed out the lack of commitment to any clear narrative, leading to Cameron’s unexpected return.

Recalling Cameron’s tenure, notably the Brexit referendum, he described it as “the most laughably inept end to a Prime Ministership that I’ve seen in my lifetime.” He concluded with a stark scepticism about Cameron being the “great saving grace” of Sunak’s government, saying, “I’m glad I’m not relying on it.”