News reporters and political analysts are now at Silverstone for the Conservative manifesto launch.

A Sky News reporter says today’s event will be an “attempt to get this campaign back on track”.

The Tory election effort has been plagued with troubling moments – including Mr Sunak getting caught in the rain, the fallout from him leaving D-Day early, and him giving a speech from the Titanic quarter and being asked if he is captaining a sinking ship.

Beth says it’s fitting the event is at the racetrack as “some people would argue the wheels have come off this campaign”.

She adds we are expecting the document to be about 76 pages – “a lot of policy”.

And we will see the PM try to frame the vote as a “tax election” – where the Conservatives will promise to cut taxes and say Labour will raise them.

But this strategy has not worked so far, with Labour still around 20 points ahead in the polls.

Beth says: “The prime minister is in a predicament now, really, where he’s so far behind in the polls it’s difficult to see how he can turn it around.

“So he can make promises now that he might not be held accountable to, because he’s probably taken the calculation it’s going to be an Everest to climb, to claw this back and win this general election.”