During the campaign, you seemed pretty confident that your patch was going to stay Tory. Yet the polls suggest the political environment mid campaign was worse than the actual result? (View Post)

With 22% of voters making up their mind on polling day itself, per Ashcroft, any of the polls were shooting partly in the dark. Those who made their mind up on polling day only broke a quarter for La… (View Post)

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Absolutely not. No sensible tactician would urge the Tories to go back to chasing after some white van man in Redcar. It’s the sensible folk of Surrey and Sussex and Hampshire and Wiltshire and Somer… (View Post)

My guess was 17, and as a LibDem perhaps my expertise as to the brutality of FPTP helped a little. (View Post)