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He stepped down from his one on one BBC interview with Nick Robinson (some would argue because he knows he'd do badly in it). However is still doing the ITV debate.

Sabrina Carpenter takes the total number of entries to 291 with Please Please Please.

Dot and Bubble gets 3.38m viewers in the +7s and becomes the lowest rating episode of New Who and the second lowest rated episode of all time. That means 3 episodes in the lowest 10 rated shows are from Series 14 with Top 10 Highest TV Ratings 01 16.1 City of Death - Part 4 (Saturday 20 October 1979) [season 17] 02 15.4 City of Death - Part 3 (Saturday 13 October 1979) [season 17] 03 14.4 Destiny of the Daleks - Part 4 (Saturday 22 September 1979) [season 17] 04 14.1 City of Death - Part 2 (Saturday 6 October 1979) [season 17] 05 13.8 Destiny of the Daleks - Part 3 (Saturday15 September 1979) [season 17] 06 13.6 The Ark in Space - Part 2 (Saturday 1 February 1975) [season 12] 07 13.5 The Web Planet - Part 1 (Saturday 13 February 1965) [season 2] 08 13.31 The Voyage of the Damned (Tuesday 25 December 2007) [Christmas Special] 09 13.1 The Robots of Death - Part 3 (Saturday 12 February 1977) [season 14] 10 13.1 The Next Doctor (Thursday 25 December 2008) [2008-2010 Special] Top 10 Lowest TV Ratings 01 3.1 Battlefield - Part 1 (Wednesday 6 September 1989) [season 26] 02 3.38 - Dot and Bubble (Sat 1 June 2024) [series 14] 03 3.47 The Legend of the Sea Devils (Sunday 17 April 2022) [2022 Special] 04 3.5 The War Games - Episode 8 (Saturday 7 June 1969) [season 6] 05 3.52 - Rogue (Saturday 8 June 2024) [series 14] 06 3.58 Boom (Saturday 18 May 2024) [series 14] 07 3.6 Battlefield - Part 3 (Wednesday 20 September 1989) [season 26] 08 3.7 Full Circle - Part 2 (Saturday 1 November 1980) [season 18] 09 3.7 The Mysterious Planet - Part 4 (Saturday 27 September 1986) [season 23] 10 3.9 The Mysterious Planet - Part 3 (Saturday 20 September 1986 [season 23] Last Updated for Rogue.

https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1800596360112251076?r= Savanta has the Tories on 25% and Reform on 10% Given the other polls out today that's going to lead to egg on face for at least one pollster.

I honestly think they're going to even worse than the polls are saying - between losing centre-right voters to Labour and the Lib Dems and losing hard-right voters to Reform there's very little space left for the Conservatives to actually occupy. I'm willing to eat my words but on election night but I reckon we'll see more Reform MPs elected than people think now and definitely more Lib Dems with far fewer Labour than being predicted.

That's quite a big drop Labour. You'd hope it's people tactically voting that's bringing it down rather than people falling out of love with Labour. This poll has Starmer doing worse than Corbyn got in 2017. More interested in what the polls say after Labour's manifesto has been released.

Nothing he's done comes close to Stan, an absolute masterpiece.

Fair play to Sabrina Carpenter turning herself into a pop superstar off the back of a Swift support slot but blimey her music is bad.

I'm going to plump for Reform winning some seats through 3/4 way splits where the high 20s is enough to be first past the post. Labour - 500 Lib Dems - 60 Conservatives - 40 SNP - 20 Reform - 10 Plaid - 2 NI - 18

Abolishing NI will be the headline tax cut in the manifesto.

Spain v Italy is one of the matches of the tournament.

France should win this group quite comfortably tbh.

A lot of people are probably quite deliberately avoiding it. I tried to but seems impossible at the minute. Thank god there's only 25 days left and we don't have the months long campaigns the US has.

Let's wait for the manifesto. I can't believe they'd actually be that stupid to include it.

Group Stage- Round 1 of 3 Friday 14th June- Germany 4 v 0 Scotland 20:00 (A) Saturday 15th June- Hungary 2 v 2 Switzerland 14:00 (A) Spain 3 v 1 Croatia 17:00 (B) Italy 5 v 0 Albania 20:00 (A) Sunday 16th June- Poland 1 v 1 Netherlands 14:00 (D) Slovenia 2 v 4 Denmark 17:00 [C] Serbia 0 v 3 England 20:00 [C] Monday 17th June- Romania 2 v 2 Ukraine 14:00 (E) Belgium 3 v 0 Slovakia 17:00 (E) Austria 1 v 4 France 20:00 (D) Tuesday 18th June- Turkey 2 v 1 Georgia 17:00 (F) Portugal 4 v 2 Czech Republic 20:00 (F)

So apparently the tweeting about crime is because the death penalty is in the Tory manifesto.

He's now resorted to tweeting about the law should show no mercy to criminals. Something the Tories have a great record on over the last 14 years - axing loads of police officers and currently letting lags out early because they didn't build enough prison space. At this rate I'm half-expecting capital punishment in the manifesto he's that far down to the 'resort to nasty Tory rhetoric' rabbit hole. So do the Tories now not believe in rehabilitation? We're going to need more than 20k prison places promised by Labour if the Tories get back in if nobody is suitable to rehabilitate. No word on how they plan to pay for it all from the Tories.

Richard Holden's advisor steps in to stop him bursting into tears live on air. https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1799859124047593566

McVey has to be taking the piss here. Truss anybody? https://www.threads.net/@politicsintheuk/post/C7_8zEniRLH Seeing reactions like this makes me think single digits is actually on the cards for the Tories.

I still find it highly unlikely Labour will get that sort of majority. I think the Reform vote in traditionally Labour areas is being drastically under-read by Electoral Calculus.

Desperate attempt to cling on to some relevance from an increasingly irrelevant Simon Cowell. Thankfully the days where anything he does impacts the charts are long gone.

It's for the Mail and therefore published on that paper's site but Deltapoll's has the Tories on just 39 seats.

Four Tory MPs have accepted donations from the Reclaim Party leader Lawrence Fox in return for adopting the Reclaim Party's policy. Surely Sunak needs to boot them out? https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1799491000483602565

I think we could see Farage as leader of the opposition by 2029 now sadly. Anyway Sunak's candidates have full faith in him! https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1799440454058205289?r=

So Reform are standing 611 candidates and there's no deal with the Tories. This is going to be a very tricky election for the Tories. For context they stood in just 275 seats in 2019 and most of the ones they didn't stand in were Tory held. They still managed 2% of the vote. With them currently polling in the mid-teens this could cost the Tories a large number of seats, they're unlikely to actually go to Reform with Labour and the Lib Dems benefitting in some places but it's certainly something to watch.