It reeked of desperation. There again, Rishi Sunak has a lot to be desperate about. Two weeks into the election campaign and there’s no shift in the opinion polls. If anything, they are getting worse for the Tories.
So the prime minister has reached the point where any old lie will do. Not bothered if it all falls apart the next day. Anything to grab a headline in the rightwing press. Fooling some of the people some of the time is now as good as it gets for Rish!.
