Rishi, priest, prescient prime minister, someone very wise from the east?

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Rishi Sunak’s first name is Hindi for priest. And it’s been pretty funny to hear Conservative Party MPs queue up to express admiration for Britain’s new prime minister predictions, from back in July.

At the time, Mr Sunak, a former chancellor and Goldman Sachs hedge fund manager, had offered a critique of Trussonomics.

The way the MPs now say the words, it almost sounds as if Mr Sunak were prescient. A pundit. A soothsayer. Someone very wise from the east.

Au contraire.

Mr Sunak had common sense and courage. Common sense enough to allow him to understand that unfunded tax cuts for a small, increasingly inward-looking island nation without a viable growth plan is economic suicide. And he had the courage to speak those words to a people who didn’t want to know the truth.

Mr Sunak spent the summer trying to warn his Party that Liz Truss would trash the economy if she pursued a low-tax economic policy as UK prime minister. The MPs seem to have b…