The election in Great Britain

Analysis: "Nothing has gone catastrophically wrong in a week" - then Sunak calls an election

It would take either a miracle or a disaster for Labor not to win the upcoming election in Great Britain, writes Robert Ford in an analytical text in The Guardian.

Incumbent Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has poor poll numbers. When he called an election this week, it was therefore "a desperate gamble by a man with nothing to lose."

In other words, it is enough that Labor leader Keir Starmer does not drive off the track completely. 

However, Ford reminds that Labor last time made its worst choice in 90 years.

In CNN, Luke McGee writes that Rishi Sunak still probably chose the best opportunity during his term to call an election.

"Nothing has gone catastrophically wrong in just over a week. It's a low bar, but right now he probably has the most solid base of a campaign he's ever had and will ever have. "

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Football fadès and untimely Titanic visit - Sunak takes a break after the fiasco start

The election campaign in the UK has barely started but Rishi Sunak has already decided to take a break. The Prime Minister is struggling with lousy public opinion figures and has started his campaign with a series of fads, writes The Guardian.

Sunak is said to have demanded to call the election in the pouring rain outside Downing Street without an umbrella, but has mostly been mocked for the move. Phrases such as "Drowning Street" and "Cringing in the rain" have appeared.

He followed up with a visit to a factory where he took questions from employees. However, it turned out that the questioners in uniform were local politicians from his own party.

Sunak traveled on to Wales where he asked employees of a brewery if they were looking forward to this summer's football European Championship. It was quickly pointed out that Wales are not in the EC.

The busy week ended with a visit to a Titanic museum in Belfast. The British media corps cut like cobras.

- Are you the captain of a sinking ship? asked a reporter.

Three sources within the campaign tell The Guardian that Sunak intends to spend Saturday at home to make a comeback.

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Heavy names abandon Sunak: "The rats are fleeing the ship"

With less than six weeks to go until the British election, there is a mass exodus from the Conservative Tory Party. Almost 80 of the party's members of parliament have announced that they will not stand for re-election.

On Friday evening came two heavy defections in the form of ministers Andrea Leadsom and Michael Gove. Leadsom is said to have become very unhappy with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to call an election already this summer. According to the Daily Telegraph, she is said to have considered filing a motion of no confidence against Sunak.

Gove and Leadsom's defection came on the same day Sunak visited a Titanic museum in Belfast. Which, of course, became an open target for the headline makers at the Labour-leaning The Independent.

"The rats escape the sinking ship while Sunak visits the Titanic museum," read the newspaper's top headline on Saturday morning.