A glorious summer of sport won’t stop voters raining on Rishi Sunak’s parade | Tim Adams

Any feelgood factor from the Euros or Wimbledon looks unlikely to boost the beleaguered PM's chances in the general election

There were obvious immediate beneficiaries of the timing of Rishi Sunak's surprise election call: Post Office villain Paula Vennells, for example, bumped off the front pages, and civil service chief of staff Simon Case, whose long awaited evidence to the Covid inquiry went largely unnoticed.

Others with cause to celebrate Sunak's seasonal gamble included the tobacco lobby, which has seen his smoking bill conveniently shelved and Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president, whose government has now trousered a cool 250m of British taxpayers' cash for services never likely to be rendered.