I just got interviewed by Evan Davis on the BBC. Frost/Nixon, eat your heart out. Evan Davis @bbcpm
#BindependenceDay #LondonMayorElections

(But before anyone gets too excited, on this average swing Khan would still narrowly win...)

In case you’re wondering how people think they know before the counting begins…

Next to their mates from the Don’t Know Party

Susie Dent’s preparing a tweet like,

Word of the day is Sniggywongler (16th century): to lose all your seats in local council elections.

Huge congratulations to my friend Ben Houchen.

Tees Valley want us to stick with the plan that's working:

Jobs up.
Airport saved.
Steelmaking back.
Darlington Economic Campus.

Excited for Ben to keep delivering more jobs and opportunities for local people.

'Disgusting in Tunbridge Wells! Spa towns legendary for their waters hit by almost 25,000 sewage spills in 2023 as number of effluent discharges rises 41% in a year.'

I always loved the phrase 'taking the waters'. Not any more you won't. 🤮

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The late MP for Tunbridge Wells, Patrick Mayhew once told me, 'Richard if Tunbridge Wells ever goes Liberal the Conservative Benches are going to be pretty drafty.'
This evening, you can just feel the breeze. 🔶️🔶️🔶️🔶️ 🌬

Sunak celebrating a 17% Swing to Labour, and not smart enough to know what it means #bbcpm

#bbcpm Ben Houchen yesterday “I’m more or less an Independent - a vote for me is a personal vote” Today ‘this is a great Conservative victory and an endorsement of Rishi Sunak and his government’! People of Teeside - ever get the feeling you’ve been had? lbc

Rishi Sunak: 'Labour know they had to win here(Tees Valley), in order to win a general election.'

Evan Davis: That can't be true?

Sir John Curtice: No...

#bbcpm

Ben Houchen is elected as Tees Valley mayor, but lost much of his vote share – oddly, he also lost his blue rosette, and the word 'Conservative' from his election campaign

Breaking news: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has shut down the auditor of Donald Trump’s social media company, accusing it of 'massive fraud' on.ft.com/49Zd7IV

'Collapsed fitness chain backed by Rishi Sunak's non-dom wife was paid up to £635,000 in furlough cash - while her billionaire father's IT firm claimed Covid handout for hundreds of UK staff.'
8 Apr 20
No wonder they are grinning.

#ToriesOut666
#ToriesUnfitToGovern

Boris Johnson 'forgot':

His security. When he popped to a party hosted by KGB.

All of his marriage vows.

Most of his children.

His WhatsApp messages.

His own covid laws.

His documented racism.

He didn't forget his ID.
That's Boris Johnson.
A LIAR.

BREAKING: For the first time in two decades, the Conservatives have lost control of Gloucester City Council

bbc.in/3UKxPI8

Don't forget that this is the woman who ahem 'embellished her CV theguardian.com/politics/2016/… and then just before the EU Ref said..

Albeit a few Sussex results left to drift in, we can conclude there will be no Tory-led District or Borough Councils left in all of Sussex, East and West.
Let that sink in.
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I think Tories WILL lose 450!!! And trailing the LD by 25!

The analysis of the 224 Independents will be interesting

Rishi Sunak says no-one wants an Election, RT if you do.

He's afraid of an Election, because he will lose.