Johnson appears on campaign trail at last – to dance on Sunak’s grave

Boris Johnson managed not a word of praise for Rishi Sunak during a speech at a Conservative party campaign event at the National Army Museum in London on Tuesday evening. Photograph: Thomas Krych/AP

Cast your mind back to 22 May. You probably wondered not just why Rishi Sunak had called an election at all, but why he had chosen a six-week campaign. It wasn’t as if he had anything new to say in that time. The economy wasn’t suddenly going to make a miraculous recovery. Hundreds of refugees weren’t going to volunteer to fly themselves to Rwanda. Patients weren’t about to take themselves off hospital waiting lists.

Rish! told us he had a plan. And it’s turned out he knew exactly what he was doing. Six weeks was what it would take. Six weeks was the perfect number. Six weeks is what it would take for the Tories to lose their minds completely.