As of today, the Conservative Party’s time in office since 2010 has exceeded that of its continuous period in government from 1931 to 1945

The extracts from Ten Years to Save The West are next level. This, from the night of the catastrophic fracking vote, is something else.

And in a 1991 BBC Panorama programme we showed how PM John Major had been registered in 1968 at a house in Lambeth which the owner told me he'd never lived at - not even for one night. That qualified him to stand for Lambeth Council, and he duly won a seat. The Mail splash…

Pish, that's nothing. In 1837, the Whigs involved in the Reform Club's election registration drive were most upset to learn that the candidate they'd been bankrolling in West Cheshire had died over a year earlier.

(Details in my PhD thesis/1st book.) bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Oh, stop teasing us with these morsels, Joe.

Just tell us about the Lavender List, and Harold Wilson’s sale of honours. thetimes.co.uk/article/harold…

Another reason why I’d expect a general election to be as late as possible - maybe even January 2025 - is that the chances increase of the government doing exactly this at the last minute…

For anyone wondering why my unbeatable manifesto doesn't appear in the booklet that's dropping through a million London letterboxes, that's because it costs an extra £10,000 to be featured in it. Is that an affront to democracy? You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

listened to a really interesting podcast featuring Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦 yesterday, talking about election compliance, fundraising and spending (indivisible) - and that sort of sums that Tory party is expected to spend in an election (£70m+
iirc), and Reform aren’t short of a groat or three.

With only a few weeks to go until the local elections and in a year of a general election, Arthur Snell spoke to agency author Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦, political and investigative journalist, about how parties are funded.

shows.acast.com/65196b0b148834…

Arthur Snell Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦 You beat me to it. I was going to say “Seth Thevoz: specialist subject - bleedin’ everything”. (Thank you Basil Fawlty.)

Always a pleasure to speak to Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦 on almost any subject. But this is his specialist subject.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/beh…

It's the commitment by Count Binface to point 20 which marks him out as a serious politician. He just keeps plugging away at that bloody hand dryer. Also v keen on points 1, 7, 12, 14, 17 and 23. Other candidates are invited to nick these policies.

Superb podcast as always from Arthur Snell with Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦 on political funding and all the concerns to be found with this.

Foreign Office “Ahead of his visit to Washington, the Foreign Secretary will meet former President Trump in Florida today. It is standard practice for ministers to meet with opposition candidates as part of their routine international engagement.” Nothing routine about the UK…

A chance to chat to Arthur Snell about the role money will play in the coming U.K. general election; a fun podcast to do.

🇫🇷 🇬🇧 Aujourd'hui sont célébrés les 120 ans de l'Entente cordiale, le 7 avril 1960, en visite d'État en Grande-Bretagne, le Général de Gaulle prononce un grand discours à Westminster Hall, devant les membres du Parlement britannique :

« Monsieur le Lord Chancelier, Monsieur le…