The average conservative voter now appears to constitute 19% of the voting electorate according to opinion polls. A centrist Labour Party is hoovering up 50% of the vote. Just one to ponder. (View Post)

Hunt’s chances of taking over probably recede a bit if he gets to 31st and Liz has managed to hold on. We wait and see how keen the Tory MPs are to move against Truss next week. I know that some are … (View Post)

You know, it wasn’t that long ago when I remember some people on the left of the Labour Party saying that the Party wouldn’t survive a shift to the centre. (View Post)

The right need to stop spitting their dummies out. They have quite frankly had more than enough chances to demonstrate they can produce a stable, competent government and they have messed it up each … (View Post)

I disagree. There’s plenty of ways to plausibly spin it: “I need to get us through the winter and the economic crisis/the markets wouldn’t like a GE now” etc etc. Of course the main reason behind it … (View Post)