(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/utCbWj_jvgk) Curtain’s up, house lights down, the stage is set – but where are the actors? The Westminster commentariat’s been squealing like little children in a sweet shop, only to find the shelves are bare. Or rather, there’s no immediate move to unseat the Prime Minister after all. Of course that doesn’t mean there won’t be one. Or that there will be. Confused? Dazed? Bored even? Understandable, given the deafening wall of noise c

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/hIwQCzef38Q) As the results tumbled in and Labour’s plight looked grimmer and grimmer, it can’t fail to have crossed the Prime Minister’s mind to quit the field and invite others to try their luck. Though finding a replacement would still be a messy affair, it’d be a lot less so than a campaign to unseat him. But as long as all sides keep schtum this remains a story without a top line. At least the rest of it falls into place fairly ti

Or inaction? Take your pick, and don’t be taken in by anyone doing the knowing tap in the side of the nose thing and claiming to have the answer. In a few days from now the politicos and the hacks will have to cede all to the voters in the Scottish and Welsh and local elections. And there’s no guarantee of a rational response when the numbers divvy out. No question, the figures look set to be terrifying for Labour. Polls are consistently pointing to them losing four-fifths of

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/Qe2EZ5oKrlU) The mood music is cacophonous. With Labour facing disaster at the polls in under a fortnight and the scandal over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador refusing to go away, the Prime Minister’s running out of friends. A move to chuck him out would be a bloody affair though. But, as our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, there is one other remote but not implausible possibility. Sir Keir Starmer’s thoug