Holding a tray groaning with slabs of lemon drizzle and carrot cake, Rishi Sunak admitted that the toll of the election campaign had caused him to break his discipline of fasting every Monday.
“That’s out the window,” the prime minister joked on his first day back on the campaign trail after being forced to apologise for missing a crucial part of the D-day commemorations. He was surviving on pure sugar now, he said, stashing bags of Haribo Tangfastics and giant chocolate buttons on the Conservative battlebus.
