2019 General Election Day 1: When is a gaffe not a gaffe?

Nick Barlow
Nov 6 · 6 min read

What Guy Fawkes couldn’t achieve, the Queen has and on the day after Bonfire Night, we have no MPs. We’ll carry on like that for another five weeks, until we start getting new ones elected from around 11pm on what’s hopefully an unseasonably warm December night.

Today’s trivia question: What does Kay Burley have in common with Clint Eastwood?

In a change from usual election practice, we are also currently lacking a Secretary of State for Wales…

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Many, many things. PhD student at QMUL. Councillor. Ran the 2019 London Marathon for Brain Research UK. @nickjbarlow on Twitter.

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