I hope this doesn't come across as sympathy because it's not. I'm more than happy for Rishi Sunak to have to deal with the consequences of wildly poor, disrespectful decision-making. But it's happened, he's apologised (mustering the best levels of human emotion he can manage), and I'm not sure what else he's supposed to do. Apparently he avoided the usual media scrums yesterday, which does make it sound as though he's running away. But at the same time, they were literally going to ask him the same thing again and again and again (as they are continuing to do today), so...what's the point?
There were reasons for the media to behave this way with Boris Johnson because the only way to hold him to account for anything was to back him into a corner and shut down all of his attempts at bluster, which eventually ended up in contradiction. I don't think that's what's happening here. Rishi Sunak is either surrounded by terrible advisers or lacks the political nous to make the right judgement (both are probably true). I'm more than happy for the electorate who this story is likely to resonate with to be reminded of it by the opposition, but it's drowning everything else out at the moment.