It’s day two of the election campaign and things aren’t looking up for Rishi Sunak. After the downpour on the Wednesday and the Euros blunder on the Thursday, today the Prime Minister produced his third viral moment of the campaign on a visit to Belfast. As the latest polls revealed that his party is still 20 points behind Labour, Sunak and his team decided to tour a thriving Northern Irish business situated, somewhat unfortunately, in Titanic Quarter.
With local hacks already annoyed by the ‘shambolic’ nature of the visit, it was left to James McCarthy of BelfastLive to ask Sunak the obvious question:
Prime Minister, we are just yards away from where the Titanic was built and designed. Are you the captain of a sinking ship going into this election?
With barely a pause, the Tory leader provided an absolute stonewalling masterclass in response, declaring that ‘If you look at what’s happened over the past few weeks alone, you can see that our plan is already working.’
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