Fascinating exchange between Tim Shipman and Harry Lambert 🌻 on the real lessons of Brexit, Starmer, Olly Robbins and foreign policy. newstatesman.com/politics/polit…

“Labour should not welcome the departure of an electoral asset as profitable as Yousaf.”

🖊️ Freddie Hayward
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The prospect of sweeping Tory losses means this is a moment of real danger for Rishi Sunak, writes Rachel Cunliffe. newstatesman.com/politics/conse…

This defection means the Tories’ majority has nearly *halved* since the general election: from 80 seats to just 41.

A great stat: Labour’s biggest popular vote remains 1951 (an election, of course, that Attlee lost).

So how radical is Labour’s new rail policy, exactly? newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

If there is a prospect of a confidence vote, we will hear claims that Sunak would be willing to go straight to the country & that rather than face a vote of confidence from MPs, he would choose a vote from the public. My @newstatesman piece. newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Given how popular rail renationalisation is (65%), we should be talking more about how it’s been a good week for Labour. ipsos.com/en-uk/3-in-5-b…

My salute to the late, great David Marquand: newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/04/…

This is fascinating, John Curtice reveals his exit poll usually tells him what is going to happen in a general election by … 2pm on polling day….

The only question is when, not if, the hapless First Minister is forced from office.

🖊️ Chris Deerin newstatesman.com/politics/scotl…

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Louise Haigh tells me she is worried that voters believe Labour has “already won” and that they will “stay at home or risk their votes elsewhere”. newstatesman.com/politics/polit…

Humza Yousaf looks 'desperate and panicked rather than calm and strategic' – excellent column on the end of the SNP-Green deal by Chris Deerin. newstatesman.com/politics/scotl…

“We know the current model has completely failed… What we’ve seen from our research with voters, particularly Tory voters or ex-Tory voters, is that they now see it as a symbol of decline.”

🖊️ George Eaton
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“Our railways are an international embarrassment, a symbol of a country that no longer works and can no longer get the basics right.”.

🖊️ George Eaton
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Louise Haigh: “What we’ve seen from our research with voters, particularly Tory voters or ex-Tory voters, is that they now see the railways as a symbol of decline.” newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

The Tories are facing a moment of great peril. My piece for ⁦The New Statesman⁩ on the potential aftermath of the May local elections. newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Labour is rehabilitating public ownership as a tool of economic policy: the railways, buses, GB Energy and a National Wealth Fund. newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

New: Labour will renationalise the railways in full in its first term in office – my interview with shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh. newstatesman.com/politics/prepa…