R
ishi Sunak has taken an enormous gamble in calling an election for early July. His party is on average 21 points behind Labour in the polls. That is not some short-term phenomenon. Labour’s average lead has never been fewer than 15 points ever since Sunak took over as prime minister from Liz Truss. Meanwhile, at 23 per cent, his party’s rating is even lower than it was when that transfer took place.
In short, so far the prime minister has had little success in reversing the damage done to his party’s reputation and popularity by Truss’s ill-fated regime. Rather, all that has seemingly happened is that his own personal popularity has nosedived.
That inevitably raises the question as to what he think he can achieve
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