Down 310 seats and squeezed into third by the Liberals with its lowest share of the vote in 40 years, it's no wonder George Osborne called last night "a truly shocking night for Labour". No surprise either that the biggest losses came in the party's traditional heartlands: Labour's gone beyond just ignoring its core voters, nowadays it often seems to be actively working against them (Iraq, the 10p tax debacle, detention without trial, alcohol duty, the rich getting richer while the rest see their disposable incomes fall).
If, as seems increasingly likely, Boris Johnson wins in London, then Gordon Brown should be a very worried man - and hopefully a very contrite one too.
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