As irritating as this is for anyone who understands elections or maths, it's a bizarre line for No 10 to pursue given Labour are desperate to avoid complacency about a big win.

I don’t think we need to worry too much about AI. I put “charismatic peanut” into an image generator and this is what it produced.

We have a Plan.

Labour doesn’t have a Plan.

Is this the most puerile, pathetic, preposterous, political campaign ever?

Actually, I’ve changed my mind. I think the more airtime Laura Kuenssberg gives these loons the better.😂🤣😂😅

I look forward as Bedfordshire PCC to working in partnership with you, Yvette, Yvette Cooper

Dilemma:

▪️social scientist me wants to correct this nonsense about “projected national shares” that the Tories, some media and some academics who should know better

▪️political me wants them to carry on - they’re helping Lab and LDs galvanise supporters and avoid complacency😂

Thomas Ingleson-Grey Yeah, hung parliament talk is more than a bit odd - it'll boost anti-Con turnout and they definitely aren't getting out of a hung parl.

The Lib Dems are going to be a real silent killer as basically nobody is talking about them and they'll end up snatching about 30-60 seats.

This is key - actually looking at council results within Westminster boundaries paints a different picture to UNS projections - LDs winning clearly in their 59th target, Labour winning in some of their 200th-odd targets, in both cases with clear squeezes of each other possible.

One of the most likely ways of the final vote lead being narrower than the polls is a degree of Labour supporters thinking the election is a done deal and not bothering. Baselessly talking up the prospect of a hung parliament seems to be a great way of getting more to turn out.

..and the prof has cooked us a fab #bigbreakfast

Happy 81st birthday to Michael Palin, Sheffield lad, the only Yorkshireman in Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch (first performed in the 1967 TV series At Last the 1948 Show).

'The core conspirators are drawn from hard right groupuscules going by the names of the NewCons, the PopCons and the UtterCons. (I may have made up one of those).' 👏 Andrew Rawnsley theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Whatever your politics, the guy is a class act.

I think it is a great tribute to British democracy that at the declaration, the winner stands on stage with the joke candidate.

And Count Binface

Here's what's gone wrong for the Conservative party.

They didn't adopt austerity in 2010 because the economy needed it. They adopted it because it allowed them to do an ideological shrinkage of the state, while blaming Labour. Austerity wasn't economics, it was pure politics.

Just time for a quick walk on a glorious morning with #sophiefromromania before I head off to Hexham Book Festival

The ConsrvativeHome verdict of the results — and remember this is THE convening place for the party — has a very clear view of the interpretation of Thursday, and it’s very different from that of CCHQ

conservativehome.com/2024/05/05/goo…

Laurence Fox The mayor of Birmingham IS NOT a Muslim. (Chaman Lal is Sikh and the mayor of West Midlands is a white Brit).

The mayor of Leeds IS NOT a Muslim. (Al Garthwaite is a white German born Brit).

The mayor of Sheffield IS NOT a Muslim. (Colin Ross is a white Brit and the mayor of…

You have to admire the sheer chutzpah of a “ newspaper “ that leads with these stories after Saturday’s events. It’s like the Beijing Daily - in limbo until the party decides the line to take. Embarrassing for all journalists of whatever political hue.

Professor Colin Talbot Andrew Rawnsley Well the first tranche will be written by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund who wrote the Corbyn book and are now writing the Starmer book