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Tales from the Tory Battle Bus: 'I love a comeback' says Sunak

2024-07-02 00:00:00.0 每日快报-政治原网页

Rishi Sunak got the McDonalds in (Image: Express)

No one can accuse Rishi Sunak of not working his socks off for the Tory cause in this election campaign.

On the penultimate day of campaigning he proved he is no part-time Prime Minister.

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Before the clock struck 5am, Mr Sunak was inspecting more than 200 robots whizzing around the depot picking customers’ groceries for delivery.

A punnet of strawberries, some cherry red tomatoes and a hummus-like dip appeared to be among the items on Britons’ shopping list today.

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Mr Sunak, a self-confessed technophile, donned a high-vis vest while packing salmon and avocado at the depot under the trusty gaze of various sophisticated sensors.

The current keyholder to No10 Downing Street is hoping a comeback is on the menu after a deserved pit stop at McDonalds for the first of three breakfasts.

He is pinning his hopes on a return to favour like the fast-food chain’s breakfast wrap which dropped off the menu in 2020 before a re-appearance earlier this year.

The sausage, egg, bacon, potato and cheese combination was among the options the PM dished out to ravished journalists including myself in a parking lot just after dawn.

“I love a comeback”, Mr Sunak said in a social media photo on his election battle bus with the wrap after popping into the fast-food giant’s Beaconsfield Services outlet.

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He admitted he ditched his intermittent fasting tendencies six weeks ago when he called the election as it turned out a life on the road is not conducive to a healthy diet.

Wanting to see what the fuss was about, I followed his lead and opted for the Prime Minister’s choice.

I finished it off with a side of very oily hash brown and some water although porridge, pancakes and McMuffins were available too.

The next stop on Mr Sunak’s whistlestop tour was to a Morrisons in Oxfordshire where he stacked loaves of sourdough on shelves.

Mr Sunak showed he is no stale politician when he confidently answered the cost of a loaf while being quizzed in the aisle of the store in a TV interview.

He said: “It’s ￡1.35 for the best-selling tiger bloomer that Morrisons here sell.”

But when the heat was turned up about how much the cost had risen over five years, Rishi’s crust cracked.

Rishi Sunak noted the price of bread while shopping in Morrisons (Image: Express)

“I don’t have that figure to hand,” he admitted, before learning it has risen by a toasty 28%.

Things were heating up back on the battle bus with journalists receiving a “Labour tax piggy bank”.

The red plastic animal, full of chocolate coins, warned: “If you think Labour will win, start saving”.

One would currently struggle to fit ￡2,000 in it - the amount Tories say the Opposition will increase taxes by - unless you use ￡50 notes.

The Tories further sweetened the deal for those on board with a jumbo-sized Twix, the Prime Minister’s favourite sugary treat.

The chipper PM said he was feeling energised in his campaign and that it was easy to keep going despite a 20-point lag in the polls because he is fighting for what he believes in.

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Speaking to the Express at his next stop - a consumer goods distributor - he said: “I’m feeling energised. I’m on my third breakfast already today. Like, how often do you get to have three breakfasts before 10 o’clock? That’s only good news.”

Asked how he was feeling ahead of tomorrow’s election, he said: “In spite of all the obvious things that you might look at and say it’s tough, fundamentally, if you’re fighting for what you believe in, then that gives you the strength and resilience to just crack on with it.”

He referred back to when he ran for the Tory leadership against Liz Truss and said that he would do the same now as he did then, when he was told he was behind in the polls.

Mr Sunak said: “This is what I think is right and I’m going to go until the last minute to tell as many people about that as possible, and that’s what I’m doing.”

When he was asked whether his predecessors Boris Johnson and Ms Truss were partly to blame for a possible Tory loss, he said: “You’ve got to just play the cards that you are dealt. There’s no point sitting there, going ‘Well, I wish someone had given me four aces’.”

Mr Sunak will be keen to play all his hands right until 10pm on Thursday when the ballot boxes close.

And he is still firmly in the driving seat as the election draws closer. The father of two sat behind the wheel of a large blue tractor and tooted its horn in a bid to scare the assembled journalists.

“I wasn’t successful with the cricket ball yesterday,” Mr Sunak quipped in reference to a ball he hurtled towards idle reporters on Monday.

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