Sadiq Khan and Sajid Javid's fathers: bus drivers. Theresa May and Gordon Brown's: clergymen. John Major's: a music hall performer. If you knew any of these, congratulations, you are a deeply weird person. In fact, even if you didn't, you are still a little strange because you subscribe to a daily newsletter (thank you, by the way!)
The most intriguing statistic of the last 24 hours in British politics isn't that Reform UK has overtaken the Conservatives in a YouGov poll. With a hat tip to Professor Philip Cowley, the last time a government found itself third in the polls during an election campaign was as recently as 2010.
