Never let it be said that The Spectator doesn’t provide invaluable time saving services. I’m here to help save hours of your life tomorrow, when the results of today’s local elections – 1,641 seats across 14 county councils, five regional and one city mayoralties as well as the Runcorn and Helsby by-election – will emerge. Here’s my election hack: ignore everything said by all of the parties contesting the elections. Literally everything, because all of it is meaningless.
It’s clear that you can fit almost any claim to any result – and the parties will do just that
More specifically, after four decades of watching and analysing elections, it’s clear that you can fit almost any claim to any result – and the parties will do just that.
As the polling guru Sir John Curtice pointed out this week, we are now in an era of five party politics: Reform, Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Greens.
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