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Rishi Sunak has not had the best of starts to his General Election campaign: going right back to last week, when he announced the date outside No 10, in the pouring rain.
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Today one of our readers contends that such an inauspicious beginning was merely a portent of troubled times to come.
Denis Bruce of Bishopbriggs writes:
"Three images stick out in my mind from Rishi Sunak's electioneering campaign so far and the optics of those three do not do him any favours. What else could be coming down the track in the same vein?
First of all the sight of him standing drookit in the rain in Downing Street all on his own is one which will feature as a forlorn photograph if the opinion polls about his electoral chances turn out to be accurate and will be branded in the memory of the nation forever.
His ill-chosen visit to the Titanic exhibition in Belfast made him an easy target for questions slanted to show him as the captain of a foundering ship.
Wednesday's newsreel saw him alighting from a train on an empty platform all on his own with his backpack like a lonely hiker giving the illusion of being Rishi No Friends.
What else lies in store for him on his electoral odyssey we can only wait and see. No doubt some imaginative photographer will try to capture a snap of him against a backdrop where he will be filmed sandwiched between words like 'THE' and 'END' or something of that ilk.
As that famous football commentator once said so memorably, 'They think it's all over ... it is now.'"
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