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Crossover happened today on next PM market - Rayner now favourite:

Rayner 5.2/5.4
Streeting 5.4/5.6

And Rayner now favourite for Next Labour leader by quite a margin:

Rayner 3.75/4.8
Streeting 5.1/5.4

Labour following in Conservative footsteps - members are going to choose the person they love but who will simultaneously be the worst possible choice for winning the next GE.

It follows reports over the weekend that Angela Rayner has, well:-

Angela Rayner secures £1million war chest to kick out Keir as former deputy PM's allies say she's 'ready to go' for leadership
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15516265/Angela-Rayner-secures-war-chest-Keir-former-deputy-PMs.html

FWIW - I think Rayner is the one Farage fears the most as an opponent in 2029.

@atrupar.com‬

Trump: "Minnesota is a mess. There's something in the water up there. I won the 3 three times but I got no credit for it. It's a rigged state. Really rigged badly w/ the Somalians, and the Somalians & the theft. We gotta get 'em out, most of them. 92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."

‪@rothschildmd.bsky.social‬

"I won MN three times but I got no credit for it" is just batshit crazy dementia talk. He genuinely thinks he kept winning and "they" just kept stealing it from him. It's like he thinks squirrels stole his glasses, or the wind is saying mean things about him. This can't go on much longer.

@atrupar.com‬

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

Sir Keir Starmer thought he could appeal to the sleaziest US President ever by appointing as Ambassador the sleaziest person he could think of. And it nearly worked.

It was considered a masterstroke. Kemi and Nige were green with envy and if it hadn't been for Super-Perv he'd have got away with it.

Of all his missteps this looks the most serious. Don't put the farm on him being PM by the end of the year

I thought he may survive both Gorton and Denton as well as May and put him down on the quiz as PM at end of year

I really cannot see how he survives this firestorm

Hmm. I’m still unconvinced. It shows a shocking level of judgement (Mandelson clearly wasn’t an appropriate figure for the ambassador role) but Starmer has done his usual trick of hiding behind process here and I think he’ll continue to do so. It never crossed my desk….

The fact nothing ever hits Starmers desk, some poor sod in #10, desk buried under paperwork....

Sir Keir Starmer thought he could appeal to the sleaziest US President ever by appointing as Ambassador the sleaziest person he could think of. And it nearly worked.

It was considered a masterstroke. Kemi and Nige were green with envy and if it hadn't been for Super-Perv he'd have got away with it.

Of all his missteps this looks the most serious. Don't put the farm on him being PM by the end of the year

I thought he may survive both Gorton and Denton as well as May and put him down on the quiz as PM at end of year

I really cannot see how he survives this firestorm

@atrupar.com‬

Trump: "Minnesota is a mess. There's something in the water up there. I won the 3 three times but I got no credit for it. It's a rigged state. Really rigged badly w/ the Somalians, and the Somalians & the theft. We gotta get 'em out, most of them. 92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."

‪@rothschildmd.bsky.social‬

"I won MN three times but I got no credit for it" is just batshit crazy dementia talk. He genuinely thinks he kept winning and "they" just kept stealing it from him. It's like he thinks squirrels stole his glasses, or the wind is saying mean things about him. This can't go on much longer.

@atrupar.com‬

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

Has anyone asked Trump if there was allegedly so much cheating how was he allowed to win in 2016 and 2024 ?

@Steven_Swinford
The Lib Dems have become the first party to call for Lord Mandelson to face an investigation for misconduct in public office - a criminal offence - over the leaking of sensitive No 10 emails

Ed Davey, Lib Dem leader, says: 'The Epstein files suggest Peter Mandelson leaked sensitive government information to a convicted sex offender while serving as a minister, and even suggested a US bank should threaten the Government to lower its tax bill

'These allegations are incredibly serious, it is now only right that the police investigate Peter Mandelson for potential misconduct in public office.'

"Lock him up," cry the Orange populists.