Always curious about competency based attacks, particularly in the run up to this election since the Tories have so little else in their armoury. Can come from either side obviously but in the UK with our small 'c' conservative electorate there's a kind of baked-in underlying assumption that Labour are the radical / change / shake things up mob whereas the Tories are the steady hand, boring but won't f-- things up too badly. Even with Starmer's uber-caution and the last 13yrs (not to mention Truss etc) I suspect there's still a stubborn core audience for that message and the Tories best hope of turning things round is mobilising that audience - hence the likelihood of 'competency' attacks.
Always curious about competency based attacks, particularly in the run up to this election since the Tories have so little else in their armoury. Can come from either side obviously but in the UK with our small 'c' conservative electorate there's a kind of baked-in underlying assumption that Labour are the radical / change / shake things up mob whereas the Tories are the steady hand, boring but won't f-- things up too badly. Even with Starmer's uber-caution and the last 13yrs (not to mention Truss etc) I suspect there's still a stubborn core audience for that message and the Tories best hope of turning things round is mobilising that audience - hence the likelihood of 'competency' attacks.