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You can take the phrase "listen to the voters" a bit too literally when the electoral system is First Past The Post. As we've just seen, the SNP got a 50% share of the vote in Scotland but won 95% of the seats. Indeed, it feels as though Scotland is united as one under Nicola Sturgeon when...

They are on the scrapheap although the extent to which that is down to their personal failings versus the extent to which that was down to sheer unadulterated Scottish Nationalism is a matter for debate. In fact, I think I'm being too kind there. How the hell can anyone think that a 20...

Burnham - within his health remit - genuinely appears to know his stuff and genuinely seems to give a sh1t about all of the stakeholders in the NHS. He seems a good all-round bloke. But you need different skills to be PM - a statemanlike presence, the ability to appeal to the middle ground and...

He stood in 2010 and came 4th. What has changed? Don't get me wrong, I like the guy but I don't think he's leadership material.