It's also a bit mad to define a "long term" plan as working because it produced a blip in growth a few years after you took office, which then didn't sustain much beyond that. Not exactly a plan measured in centuries, is it

It's enraging that after her absolutely disastrous tenure of the EHRC (even those who work there were reported as "desperate for regime change"!) she just gets a puff piece in The Times to air out her grievances and spout nonsense.

In this case, there is the context that the incumbent councillor Ross (who had also defected to the Broxtowe Alliance) sadly died. So I don't think it necessarily points to a broader electoral strategy.

And of course, one of the very few surviving Labour constituencies is Edinburgh South lol

He criticised on one hand Zack Polanski for not consulting enough with academic economists, and then seemed outraged by him getting advice from Yanis Varoufakis... an academic economist

A Thatcherite Tory screaming at Zack Polanski as if he's the one responsible for deindustrialising Britain is absurd stuff.

If this horror comes to pass, I'll console myself with the eventual catharsis of him being one of the few sitting PMs to lose his seat. Ilford North is surely a lost cause at the next election for Labour.

Alternatively, he does the cowardly act of running away to a safer seat.