I'm John Bess who is my colleague Joseph Sternberg, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

He's in London. He writes political economics, and he's in the middle of a United Kingdom election.

It's great fun because there's competition between Mr. Sunak, Mr Farage, and Mr. Starmer

as to who can make the mistake of the day. Mr.

Starmer is to who can make the mistake of the day.

There are other names for it, but I'm being polite about mistake.

Joe, you have a nominee for mistake of the day, maybe the mistake of the election.

Who is that? Oh, I the mistake of the election. Who is that?

Oh, I think this is the mistake of all of the history of democracy, you could say.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak embattled desperately trying to save his Conservative party from an extinction level blowout in the July 4th election.

So what did he do last week? He left early the 80th anniversary commemoration

ceremonies for D-Day so that he could leave France and come back to do campaign

events.

This is inexplicable.

I can't think of anything that would have possessed him

to do something like this.

And it just feels like the nail in the coffin for the conservative party at this point

because it emphasizes the sense of haplessness and disconnect from the values of the public because I mean the

D-Day commemoration is a very important part of the Pacific fabric in Britain, you know, as in the rest of Europe, but especially in this country.

And for the Prime Minister to have left early for a campaign event, I'm not sure how many voters are going to end up forgiving

him for something that tone deaf.

This is soon now continues however on the campaign trail and I want to mention the most recent proposal.

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