Heavily pointing one way. but it s interesting to see the smaller parties all sort of say, hey, we re the brake on those guys. and the greens and the snp are sort of marketing themselves, almost like being labour s conscience, if you like. and the massive, immense news story that s been happening in the general election campaign outside this building is rishi sunak s decision turns out to be pretty, pretty bad decision for him to come back from d day early to do a tv interview. and he s been criticised by pretty much everyone, although he did do a big apology, which is kind of a rare thing at this point in an election campaign. you could not make this up. so the tory election campaign so far has been trying to appeal to a particular group of voters, to try to appeal to their sense of patriotism. they got out of the gates at the beginning of the election campaign with their catchiest policy, which was promising compulsory national service or voluntary service for 18 year olds. and yet rishi sunak, who had the opportunity of a couple of days of beautiful, choreographed, looking like a statesman on the world stage, managed somehow