The cliche, from my memory already creaking under the political strain, is that oppositions never win elections, governments lose them.
Well this election is only a few hours old and Boris Johnson and his team – who let’s not forget – have been gagging for this election for months are doing a spectacular job of mucking it up.
There’s been Jacob Rees-Mogg and Andrew Bridgen engaging in a humiliating double act of insensitivity towards the victims of the Grenfell tragedy.
There’s been the Tory candidate in the Gower revealed to have said benefit claimants should be put down.
There’s been the pressure on the Welsh secretary Alun Cairns not to stand in the election because of his erstwhile support for a former aide who has been accused of sabotaging a rape trial.
There’s been the furore over Conservative Central HQ editing an interviewing with Labour’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer, such that the story has become one about whether the Tories are spreading fake news rather than what the Tories would prefer which is whether Labour’s approach to Brexit is coherent.
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