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Watch: Sunak’s Welsh football blunder

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It’s the beginning of a general election campaign, which can only mean one thing: politicians pretending to care about football to connect with the punters. 

Rishi Sunak kicked things off, with his first campaign stop at a brewery in Wales this afternoon – a brave choice of venue for a politician many voters think really couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery after his rain-soaked election announcement yesterday. 

Keen to pal it up with the assembled Welsh brewers, and no doubt mindful that his election campaign was going to overlap with this year’s Euros, Sunak asked the group if they were looking forward to ‘all the football’. 

The prime minister presumably hadn’t realised that Wales didn’t qualify for the tournament this year, and so the local workers probably won’t be watching England’s progress avidly.

An early own goal from the PM there…

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