This Horrible Dilemma Never Crystallised?

They all have a god complex, of course, but Matt Hancock's turns out to have been something else. Hancock is already without the whip, but is Boris Johnson still a member of the Conservative Party?

The Johnson Premiership will be something of which one did not speak. People being born around now will grow up with the understanding that they were never to ask about it. Yet the position of the Labour Party is that it was better than the alternative.

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.