IT’s that time during a General Election campaign when politicians, for some reason, try to portray themselves as just like ordinary people.

Back in the day, the chosen question was always to ask the next PM how much a pint of milk is and then folk would get outraged when they couldn’t answer.

But why on earth would a Prime Minister know the price of a pint of milk?

You can’t really expect Rishi Sunak or any other previous PM to suddenly dash up Whitehall in their jogging bottoms looking for a local grocery shop.

It is also true that most voters could not name the price of milk if asked, we could all have a decent stab at it but the answers would vary.

Politicians are not really like us, particularly those in high office, and most of us are happy enough to let them get on with it as we would never even contemplate running.

But this week we saw the........

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