I'd agree. If it weren't called now, this would surely replace Brown bottling it in 2007 as the archetype of it.

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I am hearing that there is currently a stage being built at the ExCeL for a Conservative Party event this evening – around 8pm.

Given reports of an announcement outside Number 10 around 5pm, could this be some kind of follow up launch?

This genuinely feels quite bad / unkind.

I wrote for CJR in 2020 about why I think pay-as-you-go doesn’t work in journalism: cjr.org/opinion/microp…

I’d like to be wrong, as the more viable models for media, the better. And if anyone can make it work, it’s the Post. But I’m not sure anyone can.

I have just witnessed a serious political communicator using the phrase 'anno for the snappy g' so I think it's safe to say Westminster's brains are thoroughly melted.

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Both the defence secretary and the foreign secretary are cutting trips short to attend Cabinet this afternoon.

That somewhat invalidates the “it’s just the rescheduled time for Tuesday’s cancelled cabinet (because Sunak was overseas)” explanation…

By not denying a summer election in #PMQs Rishi Sunak has missed the last easy off-ramp to be able to say it’s just lobby speculation, rather than his team stoking the rumours. So it’s either election time or another week of coverage of him bungling election speculation.

Going to be a hell of a ride when it turns out that the productivity problem in Britain is 40% because we’re always wondering when the election is going to be called.

Between Craig Mackinlay and a very somber series of questions from Starmer on the infected blood scandal, it had been an unusually somber and decorous #PMQs .

Safe to say that Danny Kruger put paid to that.

Election rumours really make the rest of the job feel *so* fulfilling.

'Stockpile food and water' plus 'we have to stop arresting criminals now because we've run out of space'.

Both bangers.

Grand old Duke of York territory: firmly reached.

Not quite the election day launch story you’d hope for…

Betting markets are terrible predictors, but also: