Voices: Mark my words, Labour will panic before this election is over
The mood will turn. The day will come in the next few months when the opinion poll gap will start to close and Labour will panic. Headlines such as “Rishi’s Coming Up Roses” will be written in the Conservative press.
It is a law of nature that journalists and the wider politickerati cannot maintain a single note for. Random variation and arbitrary events more or less guarantee that will stumble or that Rishi Sunak will earn unexpected approval, and that public sentiment, running for so long against the government, will run, even if only briefly, in its favour.
