The wonderful guilelessness of Rishi Sunak 

Could Rishi Sunak’s emergence as this nation’s greatest gaffe machine since Prince Philip come in time to endear him to the electorate? At this point in his campaign, you’d have to say it’s a tactic he might as well lean into. After all, one of the best things about being British is the manner in which virtually everything becomes a funny and heart-warming story if you give it enough time.

Another day, another gaffe. This morning ITV began trailing the interview our increasingly hilarious prime minister so famously abandoned the D-Day commemorations in Normandy for by releasing a clip in which he seems to claim that despite now being a billionaire his inability as a child to watch Sky TV, on the basis his parents hadn’t installed it at home, was a hardship that keeps him in touch with the struggles of the British proletariat.

On first watch, it’s hard not to laugh.