Rishi Sunak has been accused of “desperate stuff” over his plans to hold an event and take part in a broadcast interview during Labour conference.
An unwritten agreement between the two main parties usually means Labour and the Tories don’t hijack each other’s annual get-together.
But the prime minister will hold one of his “PM connect” Q&A events this morning and do a Radio 2 interview with Jeremy Vine that will clash with the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s set-piece speech, in an apparent bid to keep her out of the headlines.
A Labour source told the Playbook website the move was a “bit below the belt and a bit naff”. Another said it was “desperate stuff and shows they’re rattled by a changed Labour Party and our plans to change Britain.”
