I've still shattered but I've got three threads buzzing around my head I need to get down.... one on the polling; one on Labour and one on the Government. Apologies if not entirely coherent.



Polling first....

The standard opinion polls were right! Pretty much everyone had the Tories in the mid-40s and Labour in the low 30s and did for most of the campaign.

We didn't fully trust them because of 2015 and 2017 but the evidence was right there in front of us the entire time. They'd changed methodologies and on the whole got it bang on. Apart from a LD to Lab and BXP to Tory switch early in the campaign not much else changed.