TPUK have gone fairly full-on evangelical hard right weirdo, so a bit off piste even for Reform. They were originally semi-linked to Tories.

I'm told we can expect an exchange of letters between Nandy and Keir Starmer, but just for her to apologise, nothing more drastic. Exactly a week since a similar exchange of letters, that one from Rachel Reeves about her botched house rental admin.

That's it. Still a great thing, but at peak times far too narrow for comfort given the crowds of bikes.

All that is to say: no one even remotely sensible in UK politics believes that pay-per-mile driving will not happen before too long.

Yes, my normal commute is a lot more relaxing.

And as for the increasing habit of some to not just jump reds but to do so at 20mph, skimming past those of us waiting, just absolutely fuck right off.

Latter stats are for wider prison service, so likely to be worse in a v challenging prison like Wandsworth.

Basically, the entire prison service is a mess, and has been for years.

It looks very much like James Cartlidge planned to announce this as a gotcha on question six, but lost count and ran out of questions, and so had to raise it as a point of order. What a farrago all round.

Ah, OK. So here we are.

Once again shows how utterly juvenile a lot of UK political debate is when it comes to criminal justice. The prisons system is starved of resources, and cock-ups thus happen. They happened under the Conservatives, too.

It was so cumbersome that Cartlidge lost count of his questions, and thought (incorrectly) he should have got one more. Not sure it was the gotcha the Tories maybe think it is; but equally, why didn't Lammy just say, 'Not to my knowledge as things stand now'?