by Kevin Meagher
Is Rishi Sunak’s general election campaign destined to be remembered as the worst, most calamitous, incompetent, shambolic, hilariously deficient, madcap, badly run and outright dingbat since…well, Theresa May’s in 2017?
In what remains an electoral paradox, she achieved the second highest-ever number of votes for a winning party, but still managed to slide backwards, frittering away the majority she inherited from David Cameron in 2015.
To be fair, she was just a terrible campaigner with a big, lumpy idea – social care reform – that frighted the middle-class.
In comparison, Sunak’s effort, on current form, will go down as a three-dimensional clusterfuck.
I can scarcely believe its only Day 5.
First, we had the wet rat election announcement in Downing Street, with the Prime Minister trying to ignore both the lousy weather and the unsubtle strains of New Labour’s pop anthem, ‘Things Can Only Get Better,’ as he delivered a clumsy, overlong speech.
Then we had the incident with his minders throwing a Sky News team out of his launch while they were still broadcasting.
