On the Hunt for Jeremy, the Tories’ invisible man this

Chancellor has gone to ground, but no such luck with Mark Harper, who TV viewers were forced to endure on Sunday

Send out the search parties. Sound all the alarms. It’s been more than three weeks since Rishi Sunak called the general election and still no sightings of Jeremy Hunt. Just a couple of unconfirmed reports of a sad-looking man roaming the streets of Godalming with his dog, knocking on doors that never get opened. The sense of pathos is overwhelming. That such a titan should be reduced to near-invisibility.

You’d have thought that Sunak would have wanted the chancellor to be by his side for at least some of the campaign. The brains behind the economic miracle of the past two years. The man who has overseen a recession, a cheerleader for the current 0% growth. And when better than now to unleash him? The forensic economic mind to pick holes in the Labour manifesto.