After Rishi Sunak’s D-day disaster Labour need not worry about Tory tax claims | Larry Elliott

Tax bombshell' claims undid Labour in 1992 but the Conservatives' catalogue of chaos' and the PM's actions mean fears are misplaced

• Minister defends deeply patriotic' PM after D-day decision

Any lingering doubts about the result of next month's election have been dispelled by Rishi Sunak's inexplicable decision to leave last week's D-day commemorations early. Only the scale of the Tory defeat remains in question.

Last week was supposed to be the start of the Conservative party's fightback. The idea was to go hard on Labour's tax and spending plans in the hope that it would make voters forget that they are poorer now than they were at the start of this parliament.