The fourth week of the overall election marketing campaign started with Grant Shapps being interviewed on Sky Information and different broadcasters.
No shock there.
Like Jude Bellingham in Gareth Southgate's England squad on the Euros, Mr Shapps is likely one of the first names on Rishi Sunak's choice workforce checklist for broadcast interviews.
A chart of Sky Information interviews within the marketing campaign thus far reveals the protection secretary is one in every of three key cupboard ministers main the Tories' televised onslaught towards Labour.
Unsurprisingly, Sunak extremely loyalist Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, tops our league desk with 5 interviews, with Dwelling Secretary James Cleverly additionally on 4.
One other Sunak extremely loyalist, Transport Secretary Mark Harper, is simply behind the highest three, with a trio of Sky Information interviews together with Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on the weekend.
Sky Information' league desk is prone to be just like these of different broadcasters and subsequently a very good indicator of the general complete of interviews by main politicians in the course of the election marketing campaign.
What about at work?
Topping Labour's Sky Information interview league desk is Jonathan Ashworth, with eight, adopted by shadow well being secretary Wes Streeting – who additionally appeared on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on weekends – at seven.
The pair, clearly regarded by the Labor excessive command because the occasion's key media performers, have additionally been essentially the most distinguished members of the shadow cupboard within the spin rooms behind the televised debates, typically participating in vigorous debates with Tory opponents.
A sport of two elements
Politics, like soccer, is in fact a two-part sport. With simply 17 days left within the six-week marketing campaign, this election can now be stated to be shifting from the group stage to the knockout stage.
In a blunt touch upon political leaders, Sky Sports activities pundit Gary Neville famously declared that Southgate is “all the pieces a frontrunner ought to be: respectful, humble, truth-teller, actual”.
So, with the Euros coinciding with the election marketing campaign within the second half of June, who will likely be victorious in July? Gareth Southgate, Rishi Sunak or Sir Keir Starmer?