There is no major political party for those who care about LGBT+ equality

THE unusual timing of the general election has meant a plethora of early summer, extra-curricular PR opportunities presenting themselves to the major political parties.

- Paul Flynn

Where are we with the photo opportunities, two weeks to go? The Tories scored one of their impressive set of own goals around the Euros, when Rishi Sunak tried to gauge a Welsh room on their excitement about the tournament, despite the national team having failed to qualify. Labour's retort was a very passive, Starmerian picture of their leader in neutral white T-shirt to watch the first England-Serbia fixture, lest he rock the incumbent Scottish vote.

That's a 0-0 draw by any metric.

Glastonbury is off for both. As Jeremy Corbyn's beloved patch, Keir Starmer is unlikely to touch the event, though a secret DJ set from Angela Rayner at Silver Hayes would be a novel curveball.

This only leaves Pride left to play for. Next weekend is LGBT+ Christmas.

Year in, year out since his election as London Mayor, Sadiq Khan has led the parade from the front, despite repeated death threats as a result.