At 11am on the dot, about 1,000 Your Party members, along with a few lurking journalists, were waiting online to find out who would lead the party after a bruising two-week election campaign. “One minute to paradise!”, joked one in the comments alongside the YouTube livefeed.
In the end, they had time to make a brew. A Your Party official entered the comments to inform those waiting that the results would, in fact, begin half an hour later than planned. “I blame Thatcher,” one comrade grumped.
