My take, for what it's worth, is that it looks to be two of Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, and Kemi Badenoch to be put to the members. And there could be attempted silly buggers by any candidate with t… (View Post)

FPT: They'll end up turning into the Krypton Factor. Which means Aaron Bell will be favourite to be Prime Minister. I'm okay with this. (View Post)

However, we've only had the circumstances where the Governing party had a working majority (but not a landslide majority) going into an election three times since then (Feb 1974, 1983, and 2010). Oct… (View Post)

Meanwhile and getting in before Malmesbury: The hospitalisation figures with covid in England have just dropped for the past four days - and look very much like the trend has started to bend. If so, … (View Post)

An alternative and arguably more likely reason for China's lockdowns is that they still have a huge issue with vaccine takeup, as has been reported before. And that letting Omicron run riot through a… (View Post)