Good morning. The Tories don’t have Labour’s problem over candidate selections, but it’s just about the only one they don’t have.
It’s been close to two weeks since Rishi Sunak called this election, and it still feels as if he was just as surprised by it as everyone else. So far, the Conservative campaign has consisted of lucky dip policy ideas, a series of unforced errors that have made Sunak look ridiculous, and a vacuum where the big idea about the country’s future should be.