Convention would be needing to hold her seat in a GE to wipe the slate clean. (Which is quite a good calibration- a significant penalty for an ambitious politician, but not entirely fatal.) But she c… (View Post)

Fair enough. Then we have the wider problem, that anyone with the self-awareness to succeed at the top in politics will be self-aware enough to not touch the job with a bargepole. (View Post)

Someone (I think Major commenting on a Portillo rumour) once said that it showed the benefits of telecom privatisation. When Himself first became a local councillor in 1979, he had to haggle quite ha… (View Post)

To be fair to Ange, the Telegraph is told all sorts of things. Some of them even turn out to be true. (Oh, and first?) (View Post)

It doesn't help that Prescott also wielded the scalpel; https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-exclusive-the-error-at-the-heart-of-trumps-bbc-attack/ When does "tightening up a quote for impac… (View Post)