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This is the best summary I could come up with:
While every other senior Tory politician had sensibly chosen to lock themselves in a darkened room with a bottle of scotch and a syringe full of heroin, the Conservative party chair took one for the team.
He could be like the Japanese soldier found on a Pacific island in the 1970s who didn’t know his country had surrendered in 1945 and was still trying to escape capture by the enemy.
But 30p Lee was far more interested in picking a fight with Nick Robinson on the Today programme after the presenter correctly observed he had not so long ago defected from the party where he had been deputy chair.
Mid-morning, Keir Starmer showed up in Blackpool to give a press statement with his newest MP.
Just as it looked like the TV coverage was flagging – a staggered count over 48 hours doesn’t make the most gripping viewing – up stepped Andrea Leadsom on Politics Live to rescue the day.
Many decided Susan Hall had won the London mayoralty before anyone had even started counting the votes.
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