Plymouth votes Labour, 27k votes to 15k for the Conservatives.

Cons were defending 14 seats. Finished up winning just one.
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Idly wondering what this projection would have said about the 2019 GE after, say, the European Election results…

This won't get as much attention as Houchen or Street but feels like considerably more of an ill omen for the government

I again remind people what the Tories were saying after the 1996 local elections…

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another fixture was held…

Lots of leopards about today…

Boeing’s internal whistleblower complaint process

To anyone only just realising tonight that George Galloway is bad: welcome, better late than never

“I never thought the leopards would eat MY face,” sobs MP who voted for the Put Face-Eating Leopards in Polling Stations Act

The 1997 general election took place on this day - result:

- Labour 418 (43.2%)
- Conservatives 165 (30.7%)
- Liberal Democrats 46 (16.8%)
- UUP 10
- SNP 6
- Plaid Cymru 4
- SDLP 3
- DUP 2
- Sinn Fein 2
- Others 3

Can't believe he's going to build HS2

The government is now briefing a voluntary relocation to Rwanda - paying somebody £3000 as in voluntary return programmes - presenting it as if the UK-Rwanda MEDP removal scheme had begun

Note that the PRC Coast Guard seems to be specifically targeting the Philippine ship's navigation and communication equipment with its water cannon. It's aiming to do damage, not just ward off.

All of the political parties that elected MPs in Great Britain in 2019 have changed their leader since that general election - the last Parliament in which that was the case was that of 1955-59

Disability benefit cuts that are expected to affect more than 450,000 people by 2029 will only lead to 15,400 more people finding paid work, according to official forecasts

That's about three percent of the number of people affected.

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The problem with pushing policies that look “cruel” (such as the Rwanda deal or this morning’s announcements on PIP) is that even to those who might agree with you on even most of them, sooner or later you just look like your only purpose in politics is to be nasty.

I just can’t get over how this was an entirely unforced error and he apparently just woke up on Thursday and decided to implode his own premiership