BREAKING: SNP leadership challenger Graeme McCormick pulls out of the race and endorses John Swinney.

McCormick statement to Sky News says he did reach nomination threshold but backs Swinney after the pair held talks.

Paves the way for John Swinney coronation tomorrow.

Can anyone help me understand why the Tories are polling 10-15% with under-50s?

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Greens have more than a third as many councillors as the Tories. Remarkable.

They're so out of ideas that I can just repost my piece from after the locals last year on why this line isn't going to work this time (and probably didn't make much difference in 2015).

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Bicester notable here because Rupert Harrison - one of the most prominent and potentially important new candidates - is standing there for the Conservatives in what should be a safe-ish seat but clearly isn't.

Wokingham is John Redwood's seat. He looks v likely to lose.

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Reading J H Plumb's classic biography of Walpole and came across the line, about a politician in 1708:

'Like all politicians losing power he lived from shift to shift, hoping that time would come to his rescue.'

Some things really never change.

17k Tory majority for the Westminster seat.

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