The Conservative high command must surely have been reading campaign advice from the French commander at the First Battle of the Marne, who telegraphed in 1914: “Hard-pressed on my right, centre is yielding, impossible to manoeuvre. Situation excellent: am attacking.”
Rishi Sunak’s dive into security as a dividing line in the election race comes as his own room for manoeuvre tightens amid post-local election gloom defections and a widening dead-parrot mood among MPs.
