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At the moment it does look like a millionaires' project set up to serve/aggrandise said millionaires. Griftocrats.

I guess this is one of the few roles where the shadow sec didn't win the seat (Debbonaire in Bristol, who lost to the Greens co-leader).

Yes, it does. I look forward to the conspiracy theories about how she'll fix things.

He could visit Clacton every Friday for 5 years!

Certainly gives the impression that it'll be more varied in background which is a good thing. Presumably there aren't a great deal of decisions to make still - the replacement for Ashworth being one, but I thought his wasn't a cabinet shadow.

I was thinking that you'd obviously not crunched everything as you were 80ish seats short. Impressive crunching though - of course, a PR vote may not result in the same voting behaviour as it means different things. LibDems may be more keen to vote in places where they're a distant straggler.

Rayner as Levelling Up/Housing is likely to be more convincing than Michael Gove. Dep PM was a given.

The one-by-one may need to be hurried - it's suddenly absolutely hammering down 5 miles away, and smelling of thunderstorms.

I was more surprised that that many protestors got into what doesn't look like a big room - seemed a bit amateurish in organisation. Couldn't hear anything they were saying anyway, but they seemed quite angry. Security seemed to be 'some guys' too, rather than anything organised (which I guess...

It is, and that's not going to change any time soon - the two biggest parties don't want it. Faragism is all about stoking "why am I being screwed over", so it wasn't a surprise. More of a surprise was the BBC cutting away to show people walking along a road one at a time!

She's been shadow housing minister and has announced plans for affordable housing. Even the Telegraph were concerned that her plans would gain vots. Not everything has to be about a cooked up non-scandal.

Going well. Shouty protestors being bundled out while Farage sneers at them for being boring. Off to a quality start, and straight into FPTP isn't fair on us.

I hope that there is serious focus placed on the lack of actual party in Faragism. Nothing is influenced by membership, everything is decided by businessmen on the make.

I suspect Patel won't. She'll be happy to take Home Secretary again.

Of course he hasn't. That's not how it works in the party. MPs need to reduce any field of candidates to two, and then it goes to the members. Just as when Truss and Sunak were appointed, just as it was when Johnson was appointed.

Same reason as everything Tice/Farage does. Make it sound like they're being cheated/done down (and therefore their voters are), currying the court of public opinion to get more support. They did include PR in their propaganda, as it was obvious that this is how it works - Farage repeatedly...

It'll be harder now - the dissolution honours gave a handful peerages out. No real problem in Theresa May and Alok Sharma, and also the Crag Mackinlay (the bionic MP) who all at least will add something. Not sure Brady and Grayling add much. Laing may be useful for Parliamentary reform plans...

Curtice said right at the start that the Reform number was iffy because it was a lot of <50% chances. I'd turned in before a later prediction - I vaguely noticed Curtice revising his predictions around midnight.

right thread this time... 10 pm Exit Poll to current (9 to declare): Labour - spot on Conservative - actual down 12 LibDems - actual up 10 SNP - actual up 2 Greens - actual up 2 Reform - actual down 9