🙁 thanks

— Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) June 5, 2014

Oops!

Adam Boulton’s replacement as Sky News pol ed is Faisal Islam, formerly the Channel 4 News Economics reporter. Faisal will not be doing a re-branded ‘Boulton & Co’ lunchtime political chat, as the name is being dropped.

Bosses were worried that the “Islam & Co” show might confuse viewers…

Both Paddy Power and Ladbrokes have suspended betting on Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy replacing Paxman at Newsnight. Paddy Power tell MediaGuido “we suspended the bet as people were lumping on Krishnan”, who at one stage was a 20/1 long shot. Over the weekend several media sources placed him in the chair. Last night MediaGuido asked a coy Krishnan if the bookies were correct to stop taking bets, after taking some time to come up with his line he replied:

“I’ve not commented on any speculation for obvious reasons and never do. Let’s have a drink sometime”

Guido was tempted to just ask him the same question 14 times to get Krishnan in the inquisitorial mood for Newsnight. Paxman leaves this month so Guido will put the champagne on ice for that drink with Krishnan…

Ed Davey got very angry after Guido revealed he was forced to run away from Grant Shapps’ victory rally in his constituency last week. Read all about Davey’s brief grief beef in today’s Sun column. Don’t miss out on:

• Tory candidate Robert Jenrick is a self-styled “entrepreneur” who worked for mummy and daddy hopes to be third time lucky in Newark

• Weary “babysitter” Chris Bryant kept on message in Newark
• Will we find out how honest Vince Cable has been?
• Axelrod’s flying visit to the Shadow Cabinet

• “Worst of the lot” Luciana Berger has got through 15 staff members

Politics for the many, not the few, 70p in your local newsagents or online here…

According to an Ipsos Mori poll the Guido Fawkes Blog is the publication most read by MPs either online or in print. In case you were wondering it wasn’t commissioned by our advertising representatives MessageSpace. According to the research no other blog, political news website or newspaper is read by more MPs than Guido. We’re immensely proud, though not too surprised.

We don’t tend to do many interviews, waffling wordy comment pieces or publish rehashed press releases.  We get political stories quicker than most of our rivals, we’re more fun and we combine hard news with tittle-tattle, high brow and low brow into a hopefully compelling product. It is a formula that has seen us consistently top reader satisfaction surveys for a decade. From the Prime Minister down to A-Level politics students, we know that staying in touch with what our readers want is why we’re #1. You’re either in front of Guido, or you’re behind…

Guido isn’t sure that publicly declaring your relegation to the fourth party of British politics is a wise media strategy, but that is what the LibDem press office has decided to do this afternoon:

.@bbcquestiontime have refused to take a Liberal Democrat panellist tonight.

— Lib Dem Media Team (@LibDemPress) May 29, 2014

Turns out 7% doesn’t get you much representation on the Question Time panel. Instead tonight you can tune in to see Piers Morgan and Joey Barton. Who are still probably more popular than the LibDems…