Every few months I learn another famous historical love story started with a grown man and a teenage girl, and somehow we’re supposed to read it as romantic.
There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.