OPINION - Forget Rishi Sunak launching the Tory manifesto, he is making a deeper strategic shift

The Conservative campaign, as Rishi Sunak said several times in his BBC interview last night, “is about the future”. Spoiler alert: no one needs a soothsayer to predict that. The only question is the size of Labour’s majority and scale of the Tory wipe-out. So the Conservative campaign is switching rapidly into defensive mode, reinforcing formerly safe seats with visits from senior ministers, as the prospect of falling below 200 seats in Parliament haunts despairing tacticians.