As they always said would happen, the polls began to narrow. Keir Starmer came unstuck on questions around taxation. The Rwanda scheme was finally up and running by late May. The Bank of England cut interest rates in mid-June. Nigel Farage decided to stay out of the campaign. And the prime minister, against all the odds, secured a fifth Conservative term.
Yeah, no. Instead, today's top story is that another (in fact, two more) Conservatives are being looked into by the Gambling Commission for allegedly placing bets on the date of the general election. If this was on your bingo card, be careful – the authorities may be onto you as well.
