In Tutela Nostra Limuria

This looks like a welcome move as far as it goes. We shall see. The Chagos Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group has been taken over by a faction led by the Group's new Chairman, Henry Smith, who is the MP for Crawley, where many Chagossians have lived since they were simply dumped at Gatwick Airport.

Meanwhile, Labour was led for some years by the Chagossians' most dedicated parliamentary supporter, but it has reverted to type and is once again even worse than the Government, since it is once again controlled by people who see two of the great lost Leaders as Denis Healey and David Miliband, monstrous villains of this deplorable story.

But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.