In the wake of the local election results Andrew Marr has predicted Farage will become the next PM. About turn…
He said on LBC just now:
“As we sit here now, Nigel Farage is going to be the next Prime Minister. I think we are on course for a Reform victory at the next election. They might have Tories propping them up or not. But the way things are, very interesting listening to Farage just now… he kept talking about geography. And that is the crucial part of what’s happening today, which is that they are indeed becoming a national party.
They are winning all over the place. Now, the early wins have been in Labour’s traditional northern heartlands. And that’s part of, you know, the Brexit story, part of Boris Johnson’s levelling up.
It’s been going on for an awful long time but they’re winning there and they’re winning in the Tory heartlands across the southeast of England as well you put that together you’re asking him can he win an overall majority without London in effect and the answer is he probably can and the big questions for the other parties are do they maintain their position do they try to maintain their position as big national movements.”
This is the same Andrew Marr who said in July 2024:
“I think just having a stable government for five, maybe ten years, which has ordinary, down to earth, serious people, talking like the rest of us, in charge of the government, is going to mean a wall of money coming into this country from around the world. If you look at the chaos in France and Italy, and the chaos in the United States, for the first time in a long time Britain is like a little haven of peace and stability.”
Tempora mutantur…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”