I may be wrong but he was one of the last National Liberal MPs - he represented St Ives in Cornwall for a number of years. Just as an aside, is there any other constituency where the Conservative and… (View Post)

Short answer, no. Longer answer (because you didn't ask for it), the "Ming Vase" strategy, a term I remember Roy Jenkins coining of Tony Blair in 1997, works best when you are coming into G… (View Post)

Probably fair just as it's possible to argue any Conservative would have struggled against Starmer this year. As the saying goes, Oppositions don't win elections, Governments lose them and as we've s… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) Very little of any value to contribute (twas ever thus) but to what extent have the markets and the "guesstimates" been driven by polling which has been weaponised in this … (View Post)

Indeed and it was equally amusing to see some of the "Tories" who were veiled in their criticism of Sunak and Hunt pile in to Starmer and Reeves before Starmer's car was back from the Palac… (View Post)