Good morning. At around 12.30pm today, we’ll finally learn who the next prime minister is, and that her name isn’t Rishi Sunak.
That, at least, is the widespread expectation, even if it’s also the kind of emphatic prediction that gives pollsters nightmares. Sunak’s supporters were still faintly suggesting in the Sunday papers that he could pull out a remarkable underdog victory over Liz Truss, citing their hope that a surge in late votes could break his way – but on Laura Kuenssberg’s new show on the BBC yesterday, he had the bearing of a man who would be as surprised as anyone if they turned out to be right.
