It’s only been six short weeks since a soggy Rishi Sunak kicked off the race to be prime minister with Keir Starmer, announcing a general election would be held on 4 July to the echoes of New Labour anthem Things Can Only Get Better. Things actually only got weirder from there. The campaign trail has been packed with gaffes, blunders and downright bizarre stunts as some of the country’s leading politicians do anything to secure a vote at a time when trust in them is through the floor.
Here’s a round-up of the 2024 general election campaign’s best bits. Steve Bray’s day in the rain Rishi Sunak hadn’t even made it to his podium before Steve Bray – the protester who has been shouting ‘Stop Brexit!’ for almost a decade at this point – had won the day. Bray piped out the Imperial March – Darth Vader’s theme from Star Wars – before Sunak stepped out to end months of speculation on the general election date.
When Sunak appeared things only got worse. His impassioned speech was drowned out both by driving rain and D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better being fired out of Bray’s speakers. It hardly felt like a confident start for Sunak’s bid to turn around a 20-point poll deficit.
Elmo, Binface and a fish finger: A colourful history of novelty political candidates taking on the elite Count Binface: ‘The British people will be watching you, Keir Starmer’ Sunak’s D-Day gaffe and Sky TV It definitely didn’t get better for the Conservative leader. Worl.
