The challenge in these seats is convincing voters that a vote for Reform could mean waking up on Friday to a Labour or Liberal Democrat MP.
The overall picture, however, remains broadly the same. Kemi Badenoch, Johnny Mercer, and Penny Mordaunt continue to hog the podium, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Tomlinson remain at the bottom.
The horror of what has happened is now widely recognised. The state, which should uphold child safety, instead engaged in a programme of mutilating children.
She, Penny Mordaunt, and Johnny Mercer continue to simply trade places on the podium, as they have since November – and only these three have a positive score of over 30 points.
The Speaker declined to call either Anderson or Galloway, just as he had declined last week to call Abbott.
Between Lee Anderson’s defection and the row over Frank Hester, MPs are questioning the Prime Minister’s judgement. But they should remember Simon and Garfunkel’s wise words: every way you look at it you lose.
Meanwhile Penny Mordaunt overleaps Kemi Badenoch to take top billing after being front and centre in the row over Speaker Hoyle a couple of weeks ago.
The authors are entitled to their dismal view of Britain’s recent past, but it does not strike one as a conservative view.
So-called real recall had much to commend it over the version we got, which concentrates power with the parliamentary authorities. But it too could have been used to curb the independence of MPs.
This was a two horse race between the winner and Suella Braverman – 174 votes to 124 votes. Penny Mordaunt came third with 85 votes.
We have become a party for whom the grotesque is the primary mode of communication. Just to reiterate, I’m not talking about policy or principle here, but a predilection for the odd and off-putting in presentation.