This exhausting campaign lumbers on

Plus who is in and out of our first hustings, hyperlocal campaigning sometimes works, news in brief, and more

It was only three weeks ago that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a snap General Election, and yet it already feels like we’re on roughly the third year of the campaign. With three weeks more to get through, just what have each of the parties been up to? Campaigning at D-Day events, taking trips to the seaside, and waving signs at traffic, apparently. …