| Comment | Don't underplay the energy part, particularly as she highlighted this herself.
I've spent a bit of time working in government, and the life of senior ministers is *insane*, I couldn't imagine sustaining it for months, let alone years. A relentless, hour-by-hour schedule from morning to night where you have to be constantly on top of your brief at the same time as pre-empting the knives from all sides and being ahead of the election cycle, where your enemies have a *lot* more time to think about how to take you down than you do to defend yourself
Personally I think politics would be a lot better if it were the norm for people to step down before they burn out, but some never want to give up the reins |
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