Will they now seek to appease turbulent voters by rushing her-deal-plus-the-Customs-Union through the Commons?
Could the Yellow Party take control of Lewes, St Albans, Winchester, Teignbridge, Guildford – even Wokingham?
One wonders whether he feels a kind of disappointed love for the Tories – or for them as he thinks they ought to be.
Plus: Creepy Biden, useless TIGs, spineless Tory MPs…and why I’d favour Scottish independence were I fully Scottish.
The news was apparently lined up by the party to be announced later today. But she appears to have jumped the gun.
It’s the classic small party dilemma – do you accept recruits and defectors, even when they come with baggage?
We seem to be heading back towards where British politics was between 2005 and 2015: in other words, towards more of a three or four or perhaps more party system.
Plus: I’m still backing Brexit. The Independent Group’s Tory targets. And: it’s a disgrace that public money is being spent on the European elections.
New polling for Open Europe shows that the Tories have special reason to be wary of this consequence of a long extension.
Change UK are not the problem for the Conservatives. Rather, it is their own change narrative is ultimately weak.
At the same time, my research shows some of the hurdles any theoretical new movement will have to cross if it is to survive contact with reality.
Technically, May still has time to avoid European elections. Politically, it is very hard indeed to see how she now can.