People know Farage isn’t a working class everyman. His gift is that he speaks directly to them in language they get and that lands well, when compared to the stilted politician-speak they get from ev… (View Post)

I think if he navigates this Mandelson stuff he is probably safe for a fair bit. I can't see them moving against him purely on the basis of bad election results in midterm. Two years from now if he's… (View Post)

Possibly. Though she also has to do it in a way that doesn’t upset the selectorate. If, as seems to be the messaging, she is going for the right wing authoritarian firebrand position, in the style of… (View Post)

Re the next Labour leader, is there not also a rather unsaid element that doesn’t help Burnham - i.e he’s a straight white man? I don’t endorse this obsession with identity above all, but there’s ple… (View Post)

It will be wonderfully ironic if Starmer, the king of wanting everything done to the letter, has to go for failure to follow process. (View Post)