That's Jenrick +5, Badenoch +6, Tugendhat +4, and both Cleverly and Stride unchanged from the first round. It's perhaps rash to assume that these were all direct transfers from Patel's 14 (plus one w… (View Post)

This is a really good point. A lot of people are assuming this vote represents the actual level of support for each candidate. That's hugely naive, particularly with 120 MPs. This is the political eq… (View Post)

It's really common for PMs, and indeed holders of many public offices, to update the art in their office. I'm quite sure all his Tory predecessors did so (possibly excluding Truss simply due to lack … (View Post)

People simply want to be fair by asking the rich* to pay a little more. Surely that's not unreasonable? * "Rich" being defined as having more money than me by a sufficient margin that it is… (View Post)

People have an odd view of what a pensioner is, I think normally based on what one was when the person doing the imagining was much younger. Someone who is 80 now was born in 1944, was a youth in the… (View Post)