The obvious answer to the Lords question is just to have it as Diane Abbott for Labour, Floella Benjamin for the Lib Dems, and an animatronic version of the late Baroness Trumpington for the Tories. … (View Post)

Your last point is the one. The public decided how this election was going to play out a long time ago. The next six weeks on here will be constant over-analysing of whether Sunak not owning a brolly… (View Post)

I think one thing we'll hear about when he's PM is that Starmer appears to be rather poor at people management, and tends to avoid getting his own fingerprints on it in a way that isn'… (View Post)

The central belt basically is Scotland in electoral terms. For us political nerds, poring over the maps, the eye is drawn to the huge rural seats to the north, and pretty big ones on the borders. But… (View Post)

It's unbelievably daft, particularly having seen what happened with Johnson and Paterson fairly recently. A needless, self-inflicted wound. (View Post)