Update: 12/06/2024


** 22 days to go - Here’s what you need to know.
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“It just ran over… apologies for keeping you.” – Sunak to ITV’s Paul Brand on leaving the D-Day Parade.

Just over three weeks out from the election, and Rishi Sunak continues to dig himself into a seemingly inescapable electoral hole. The great D-day departure scandal continues to haunt him. It seems that in leaving early, he traded a great PR moment with fellow world leaders for a crash-and-burn ITV interview that only made him look even more out of touch.

Sunak, asked to relate to British voters by talking about what he’s had to go without, talked about being deprived of “Sky tv” as a child. On top of all his other gaffes in attempt to relate to the public – and now a flatlining ([link removed]) economy – the PM seems destined to lose this election. Oddly, he doesn’t seem to care.

As Sunak seeks out a lucrative private sector career in tech or finance and Britain moves forward after the election, perhaps there’s a lesson to be learned from our entitled prince of a PM. Maybe it’s a sign that our political system is excluding regular people, and increasingly being ruled by a minority clique that doesn’t care about – or even understand – ordinary people’s lives.

In other news…
* Keir Starmer has called out Sunak’s manifesto ([link removed]) as “Jeremy Corbyn-style” because it is “uncosted.” As journalist Robert Peston rightly pointed out ([link removed]) , the 2019 Labour manifesto was fully costed, and Starmer himself endorsed the costings document for it. Is casual lying becoming endemic to British politics?
* Lib Dems surged by four points ([link removed]) yesterday following their manifesto announcement – commentators have associated it with their commitment to rejoining the EU single market.
* The Green party will unveil its manifesto ([link removed]) today, looking to capture progressive 18-34 year olds disillusioned with the Labour party. As former party leader Caroline Lucas put it: “[Labour] are being so cowardly right now”… “Greens in Parliament will push Keir Starmer to be a bit braver and a bit bolder.”
* The Conservatives are reportedly ([link removed]) receiving major donations from the same bankrollers behind the right-wing think tanks that wrote Liz Truss’ calamitous mini-budget.

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