Question. If a prime minister is heckled at a rally and there's no backdrop scandal to imbue it with meaning, should it still end up on the news?I ask because so often in election campaigns, individual and often innocuous events get sucked into the black hole of a political narrative and spat out as something very different and much more dangerous.Exhibit A - the torrid two days Rishi Sunak has had after his early departure from the D-Day commemorations.
This was inevitably seen as another blow for the embattled campaign, despite the prime minister giving a fairly convincing defence of his policy.You wonder how such a situation would have been received had it happened to Sir Keir Starmer - the drama potentially diluted by his huge lead in the polls and polished campaign machine.None of this is to deny the importance of the D-Day story.