Hotblack: I wonder if there will be more self awareness in a goodbye speech to the public? Or if we’ll get more of the same?

Today’s newsletter: some thoughts on Rishi Sunak’s election campaign, and the decisions, in the last six weeks, but also the last two years that made it so:

Why has Rishi Sunak’s campaign been such a disaster?www.ft.com The PM’s blunders worsened his chances amid a backdrop of crumbling public services and party fundraising struggles

Hard to run on your record when this is your record. Hard to say your opponent has no plan when you don't either.

Indeed. It’s essentially a campaign with no self-awareness, run by people who would vote for the Tory candidate even had they murdered their own family.

No attempt to persuade, just louder and louder repetition of "vote for us because vote for us"

I wonder if there will be more self awareness in a goodbye speech to the public? Or if we’ll get more of the same?

I think our options are triumphal, betrayed, or both.

Oh dear… I wasn’t even hoping for an apology but something basically dignified and gracious would be nice.

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