Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
Rishi Sunak attends the plenary session of the Summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne.With a little over two weeks until the general election , one thing is becoming more apparent every day. The opinion polls are not shifting and the level of panic in Tory headquarters is becoming more acute.
“Honestly, if you can’t even have a strategy that holds for six weeks, you really don’t deserve to win.”, senior Tories are urging Sunak to “go for the jugular” in the final fortnight of the campaign by being relentlessly negative about the prospects of a Keir Starmer government. “He needs to just do what he’s doing, which is continue to show energy and enthusiasm and commitment and do the best he can,” he said.“One thing I would not do is take the advice of various people in the Tory Party - terrible advice - which is to switch and become the lead negative campaigner for the Conservatives against Keir Starmer.
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