Stephen Bush: Two things: one, finishing above Tony Blair's 1997 haul is very much on as it stands. Two, and much more importantly, so too is Labour getting 420 seats.

Two things: one, finishing above Tony Blair's 1997 haul is very much on as it stands. Two, and much more importantly, so too is Labour getting 420 seats.

Wildly extrapolating from Swindon South: better than projected by the exit poll, so thus far, all the results pointing to a bit better than the exit poll, a bit worse than the average of the MRPs for Labour.

UK general election live: Reform UK has cost the Tories seats, says exit pollsterwww.ft.com

What are the chances of the lib Dems getting 69 along with the labour 420? (So long as we don't end up with 14 reform MPs and 88 Tories)

The dream of 420 and 69 is very much alive at the moment.

Stephen

Good news for those Layla supporters who did that 'We call him Sir Six Per Cent', because there is no way I am going to do an acidic 'we call him Sir Sixty Nine' callback.

How much would we need to cruwdfund to bribe you to do this?

The FT Code is very strict on bribery, alas.

A crisp £5 note if you get it into the next FT podcast

A whole £5? Not £4.20?

But might the Lib Dems stretch to 69 seats?

There speaks a man with a email header to write.

nice

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