The by-election betting as voting ends
Mid Beds – Make your predictions
Now a move to exclude party members from leadership elections
This move, from Graham Brady, has in my view a lot of merits. Under the British system party leaders are not presidential candidates and I think it is wrong that those who’ve just paid a few pounds a year should have this power. MPs are the ones that work most closely with the leadership and MPs are the best ones to make the assessment. It will be interesting to see if this gets some traction. Mike Smithson
Mid Beds betting – CON and LD up while LAB down
It’s getting harder to see how this ends
The big story overnight from Israel has been the attack on the hospital and the reports of the huge toll of inmates being killed. Both sides seem to be working hard on the public relations front to get over that they were not to blame. If this carries on much longer it’s hard to see any sort of early ending and there will be many more mistaken bombings like this one. They just make it harder for any sort of…
There’s still a big gap for the Tories to surount
Hard to see anything other than a big LAB majority