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Given that we have reached the point in the General Election campaign where (according to the latest poll I have seen) the Tories’ lead over Labour has been cut to nine percentage points and there are still nine days to go – and therefore absolutely any outcome is theoretically possible – [...]

Overnight, as is my wont, as I went about my business I also had my computer tuned to the BBC’s Radio 5 Live station. The big current affairs issue of the moment was the aftermath of the recent horrendous London Bridge terrorist incident in which three people were killed (one the perpetrator) and [...]

Let’s begin by just listing some of what happened yesterday. Perhaps the first news I registered after waking was that, with a fortnight to go to Polling Day and the latest poll showing that the Tories might be on course for a 68-seat majority, Labour strategists were now going to switch to [...]

Yesterday – since nobody is asking – I spent the best part of ten hours driving to a pub not far from Birmingham and then back again for a two-hour reunion lunch with some old friends. Yes, it’s wondrous what some of us will do sometimes to fill up a day! For accompaniment I spent the bulk of [...]

Discerning Rusters may have noticed a strange irony emerging from this ‘sudden, short, sharp (and December) General Election campaign’ which has been pitched by Boris as the best and/or only way of breaking the deadlock of the paralysed Houses of Parliament over Brexit as a result of the secret [...]

I regret this post is another dispatch from the General Election front line – albeit hopefully a brief one – following my dipping in and out of the special edition of Question Time (chaired by Fiona Bruce) that was broadcast last night on BBC1 at 9.00pm. The format was that the leaders of the [...]