Rishi Sunak meekly sat, waiting his turn, as if he was a little boy nervously perched outside the principal’s office, while in the foreground Britain’s most tattooed woman chatted away about getting her genitals inked.
This being ITV’s This Morning—the long-running, extremely scandal-hit daytime TV magazine show where a recipe slot can be followed by an in-depth interview with a stalking victim—the British Prime Minister, the day before the U.K. General Election that will determine his and the ruling Conservative Party’s fate, was out to desperately scrounge a few final votes.
The polling forecast going into Thursday is for a possible landslide for the opposition Labour party—the prospect of which has motivated Sunak and his ministers to invoke likely doom for the entire country, despite many voters seeing the corruption and sleaze-beset Tories as responsible for a long slide into the very same.
