The Carmarthen seat would be a likely Plaid hold - and Pembroke would be vulnerable to Labour in a reasonable year as evidenced by the 1992 result there. (View Post)

An election could still be held in October 2023.Electoral boundary changes were approved in April 1983 with a GE taking place a mere two months later. (View Post)

I am no Corbynite but- unlike Attlee and Thatcher - he appears to be the only Opposition Leader who succeeded in moving the Overton Window without achieving office as PM. Johnson and the Tories have … (View Post)

But by 1987 unemployment was falling. We were experiencing the 'Lawson Boom' for which the reckoning came later. (View Post)

Also true in wartime - ie 'when the chips are down!' (View Post)