I see Leo Beckett has just died (age 95). He was a lovely, gentle man. His partnership with Margaret was legendary - she would completely ignore considerations of building her PLP network in favour o… (View Post)

This sounds too political for me - a translation of "We're going to need more restrictions but with Omicron not yet entirely rampant maybe we can get away with announcing them on Dec 27&quo… (View Post)

Intuitively I think the next polls will show a slight Tory recovery, simply due to the absence of new scandals for a few days plus Johnson sounding coherent in his broadcast (he's fine with pre-… (View Post)

25! (View Post)

Yes, quite. If there's a proper deal, fine, nearly all of us will stick to it. But it expects too much of a candidate that he'll just not make an effort because another party that he dislik… (View Post)