My actual election hot take? It’s probably good that Labour have fallen short amongst some core voter groups because it should at least tone down the more active belligerence towards their supporters for a bit.

Worth a read, if for no other reason than you get to see a really miserable conservative

BREAKING: Source close to Susan Hall has told me she is confident she has won the West Midlands Mayoralty

'No, no, dig up stupid'

Another Conservative leadership contest at this stage of the electoral cycle might not address any of the party's underlying problems, but it would - and I beg Tory MPs not to forget this - be very funny.

Would it have been meaningfully better if they'd opened with 'we are fucked?'

No, that is The Last Jedi

Nearly won it is

Reminder that the racist Labour source who went in two-footed blaming the West Midlands Muslim community in the most bigoted manner for a loss that did not materialise in the end still needs to get in the bin

Poor Philip Cowley gently rocking in a corner somewhere...

This turns a bad set of results for Rishi Sunak into an absolute disaster.

Earlier a plotter told me 'that ship sailed with Ben Houchen.'

I wonder if that'll hold.

Michael Fabricant, Michael Fabricant, can you hear me? Your boy took a hell of a beating. Maggie Thatcher, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, your boy too a hell of a beating, a hell of a beating.

Ahahahahahahahahahahhaa

This could be true, but feels extremely weird off the back of the last 24 hours

Grandparents update, they left their purse in the airport but have decided it must have been stolen by a TSA agent who tricked them into putting it into a 'black plastic tray'

Ohhhh Canada