Who pays for pledge?
Desperate Rishi Sunak must come clean about how he plans to fund an increasing number of promises or his last ounce of credibility will be gone.
The Prime Minister’s pledge to raise UK defence spending by 2030 without explaining how it would actually make the country more secure is probably an empty promise anyway, when defeat stares him in the face. But we deserve to know where an extra £75billion over the next six years would come from.
Then, on top of that, there is an unfunded £46bn goal to axe employees’ National Insurance contributions as Conservatives plot to buy votes with bribes in a stagnant economy.
So what would you slash, Mr Sunak? Health, pensions, education, benefits, law and order, transport, housing or the environment?
Or would you put up other taxes? Or hike borrowing massively? The British people are entitled to honest answers from their Prime Minister.
Grim reminder
Another five deaths in the Channel as Rishi Sunak boasts his Rwanda plan would stop small boats grimly illustrates why it simply won’t work.
Those fleeing persecution or poverty – and risking their lives in the hope of starting a new life in Britain – can do the odds.
They will know they are very unlikely to be strapped on to a seat on a chartered plane and dumped in East Africa, from where they could simply leave and start again. No easy solution exists, but Rwanda clearly isn’t the answer.
Picture of love
Grinning from ear to ear in a heartwarming photograph snapped for his sixth birthday by his mum, beaming Prince Louis is a picture of joy.
That such a beautiful image was taken by the Princess of Wales while she has treatment for cancer speaks encouragingly of a family living happily, despite the stress of her frightening illness.