It's certain to be made official.

It's time now for the opposition parties to stop bleating about a general election. We know it would be the right thing to do, but it isn't happening. Sunak will steady the Tory ship and will, I think, see out the full term of this government. What Labour needs to do now (apart from being secretly thankful that they haven't inherited the poison chalice) is to work bloody hard on putting a genuine alternative to the British people. That does not mean doing a Blair-lite and it does not mean shutting up the left of the party. Unless I'm wrong about the timing of the next election, I feel that Starmer can't cut it and that we are doomed to another Tory term. God, I can be gloomy.