Marina Hyde’s campaign trail 2024
Marina Hyde’s take on the 2024 UK general election
Tory tactics make this a rip-roaring election for the phrase ‘[citation needed]’
Conservative strategy seems to involve throwing a range of negative things at the wall each week and seeing what sticks
Sunak continues his fighting talk. At this stage it’s more of a surrender message
Prime minister’s campaign has become the only spectacle less appealing than England at the Euros
And it’s over to Mel Stride. Again. Where are all the other Tories? Ladbrokes?
The work and pensions secretary’s colleagues must be trapped under something heavy because no one but Stride is pulling their weight
Are Tories bent on scoring own goals? Alleged election betting shows real dedication
Tory party campaign director’s leave of absence over alleged bet hands Labour the perfect metaphor
Sunak’s never-ending apology on LBC phone-in elicits a sea of grimaces
The PM is sorry we feel like that, but at least he isn’t trying to con the country into believing in a Labour dictatorship
In the challenger v the gaffer election event, the audience was the winner
Sunak’s interview about going without Sky TV as a child was the perfect warm-up act but Keir Starmer got a few laughs too
Farage buddies up with Lee Anderson for ‘red wall’ take on Bad Boys: Ride or Die
‘You’re with another man who’s box office,’ a journalist tells Farage, who will now have to push Anderson down a staircase
America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world, Marina Hyde on the election campaign trail, and is doing nothing the secret of happiness? – podcast
Rishi Sunak is so convinced he can’t win he’s promising any old mad thing, while the Lib Dems are deliberately falling off paddleboards – Marina Hyde on the election. The couple on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children – Elon Musk (father of 11) is a supporter. Few of us have the money to take a long pause from work – but, as Anita Chaudhuri discovers, even a day can make a difference
Greens keep it short and sweet to avoid the don’t-want-to-knows
The more people find out about the Green party’s policies, the more they tend to switch off. So today’s campaign launch was over in 15 minutes
Lib Dems are go! And they’ve already done the joke
Paddleboard on Tuesday, bike on Wednesday – their slogan could be ‘yeah but you’re talking about us, aren’t you?’
Manufacturing dissent: welcome to the political excesses of the election campaign
Rishi Sunak is so palpably convinced he can’t win he’s promising any old mad thing. Meanwhile, the Lib Dems are falling off kayaks
