I don't think there is any substantive difference between Reform and the Tories on asylum or justice anymore. We don't have a centre-right party.

For 20 years, Lab and Con defenders of FPP have argued "keep FPP to keep the radical right out of power". On this week's results, the arg now looks more like "drop FPP if you want to keep the radical right out of power"

In this case, it's perfectly plausible that Labour will lose seats in the North to Reform at a future election, but - on current polls - it will do so more due to losing progressive voters to the LDs and Grns than by losing voters to Reform.

There’s something so viciously ironically funny about standing on a stage and literally handing out checks to people for their vote while calling other people paid shills.