I have to wonder if Richie Sunak is really “in it to win it” with the pending UK General Election? From surprising a good number of his Conservative Party colleagues (and announcing it in the pouring rain without even the assistance of someone holding an umbrella) to Thursday’s embarrassment of skipping off early from the D-Day memorial to record an interview with ITV (you’d have thought someone with the power of the PM could have pointed out that they could have come to him, thanks to modern technology), his campaign seems to be built on demonstrating bad judgement. Sadly, in the modern era, that doesn’t seem to be a bar to political office but I’m struggling to understand how anyone could countenance voting for the local representative of a party whose leader seems to be utilising a gaffe-a-day diary (especially when Labour are not as distinguished from the opposite side of the house as some of their more radical supporters might like).

The thought occurred to me shortly after the election announcement that you only have to cross one letter out of Sunak to get “sunk”. That’s probably the result of listening to too much of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on Radio 4, which often has rounds on songs, books or films ruined by adding, removing or changing a letter. I decided to resist posting the thought straight away. However, yesterday I saw it on a post on Facebook and I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t become a common meme over the next few weeks of campaigning unless our present PM manages to improve his current track record by a considerable degree.

One can’t help wondering if he has his green card out, tickets booked and school places negotiated for his children already because, thus far, he looks like somebody ready to take on the role of scapegoat for the Tories suffering a massive defeat and not someone who is intending to persist with politics for the longer term.