He is right, the snap election has meant CCHQ could impose shortlists of 3 Sunak loyalists whereas if the election was in the autumn local associations could still have picked their own candidates fr… (View Post)

Voters who are pro free enterprise, pro low taxes and small state, pro immigration and socially liberal amount to 10% of the electorate at most. That is the brutal electoral reality. There might be a… (View Post)

If the LDs put forward a centre right platform they lose their SDP, social democratic wing to Labour or even the Greens and are back under 10% again as in 2015 with no Labour tactical votes for them … (View Post)

Clegg was promising to scrap tuition fees in 2010 and positioned himself on the centre left then, hence the sense of betrayal when he formed a centre right government with Cameron. (View Post)

Romford was Labour in 1997 (View Post)