Congratulations to you both. Alec Douglas-Home was then PM. (View Post)

Ted Heath's majority of 31 in 1970 included 8 Ulster Unionists still taking the Tory Whip. Without them , his majority was just 15 - reduced to 13 a year later following the Bromsgove by-electio… (View Post)

He performed significantly less well in his second London Mayoral Election in 2012 than he had done in 2008. Had Labour selected an alternative to Ken Livingstone, he would likely have lost. (View Post)

Though Hubert Humphrey carried Texas in 1968 and still lost! Admittedly the Republicans were then still able to win California and Illinois - both of which are now well beyond them. (View Post)

I am totally with you on that! (View Post)