How Rishi Sunak lost the menswear election
Jul 01, 2024
n their final head-to-head debate last Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer clashed over taxes, immigration, and gender. Both men were dressed similarly, wearing dark worsted suits with crisp, spread collar dress shirts and silken neckties in the colours of their political parties. It has been said that, ideologically speaking, you can barely place a cigarette paper between the two candidates, but in terms of fashion, there was one clear difference – proportion. While the cut of Starmer’s suit was conventional, Sunak wore his usual shrunken silhouette as he battled to turn things around in what’s predicted to be an apocalyptic defeat on 4 July. Read more at GQ (UK).