Tiverton and Honiton is scythed apart by boundary changes. Boundary changes help the Lib Dems in their Somerset gain, but in Devon it puts a lot of very blue areas into two separate seats. Richard Fo… (View Post)

1974 by Denis Healey, I believe. There were more tax bands then, of course, so slightly tricky to say what "basic rate" means. (View Post)

Just to note that a relevant legal point is that sentencing in criminal cases is based on sentencing guidelines at the time of the offences. Whilst the convictions were quite recent, the Huddersfield… (View Post)

Very hard to know if this signals he is a man who thinks deeply about theological issues and grapples on a daily basis with complex ecumenical matters, or if it indicates he's a massive bullsh1t… (View Post)

On topic, Sunak may care to reflect on the last time backbenchers came to a PM demanding the head of her Chancellor, and the precise amount of time that it took, on receipt of said severed head, befo… (View Post)