This is John Batzter, a conversation with my good colleague Joseph Sternberg, member of the

Wall Street Journal. He's in London. We're watching the European Union elections,

we're watching the French elections called by Macron, but we're especially watching in this

conversation the United Kingdom election and Joe has a nominee for a

poorest decision made by a politician, sometimes called stupid.

Porous decision made by a politician during a UK election during the practice of democracy ever.

Here's Joe Sternberg nominating a new champion

of making a bad decision in a campaign.

It only lasts five weeks.

And it involves an anniversary anniversary the 80th anniversary of a world scale

event that you're invited to as Prime Minister Joe Sternberg Wall Street Journal

editorial page. More of this later.

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.