U.K. PM's party must stay together

The knock against artificial intelligence is that it doesn't yet have the ability to think strategically across a number of tasks. And so perhaps it's fitting that Rishi Sunak wants to be known as the "AI prime minister."

- ANDREW MACDOUGALL

With British newspapers filled with reports of discord within the Tory election campaign, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's party should resist the urge to panic, Andrew MacDougall writes.

The Conservative election campaign in Britain remains a strategic and tactical mess. It's more Dunkirk than it is D-Day, a fact reinforced last week when Sunak skipped out on the key elements of the 80th anniversary commemorations with veterans and other world leaders in Normandy in favour of a political interview in Britain. "What's next," a former Tory operative messaged me, "punching Judi Dench? Pushing David Attenborough down the stairs?"

That Sunak gaffed is no surprise. The knock on Sunak has long been that he's "bad at politics." But to see that badness in full view during a campaign is still breathtaking. The newspapers are now filled with reports of discord within Tory campaign HQ, with some pining under anonymity for a midrace change of horse.

Arise, Lord (David) Cameron of Chipping Norton?