Last week, Steve Back, the photographer who covers Downing Street, and who specialises in long-lens shots displaying what documents persons are carrying as they enter No 10, posted these on X. Labour has been prediciting for ages that the election might be in May, but most journalists at Westminster have, till lately, not taken this significantly seriously. Labour has its own reasons for claiming May is the date in Sunak’s diary. And, internally, pushing this line serves a “no complacency” objective, guaranteeing the get together is prepared for May if it must be. Being probably less rich than Piers Morgan, and certainly less vain and crass, Burley proposed a £10 bet, not a £1,000 one. Ashworth accepted, they usually shook palms on it, with Ashworth suggesting that the money goes to a charity for the kids of alcoholics.