+Election round up+

deSPITe the biggest SnP defeat in nearly 40 years, that over-stuffed little haggis nicola Sturgeon claimed victory in Scotland, conceding they’d ‘suffered some losses’. How ungracious to dismiss the fall of both her former leader Alex Salmond and leader in the Commons, Angus robertson, in such casual terms.

HOURS after losing his constituency, Nick Clegg was on the radio preaching about the evils of Brexit. He conceded his love affair with the EU had cost him his seat, yet kept blathering on. The voters have spoken, Nick. Time to shut up.

dIAne ABBoTT turned up at the polling booth in what looked like an orange trouser suit — a day after she was ‘encouraged’ to ‘step aside’ from her duties as Shadow Home Secretary due to a mystery illness. Was she parading herself as a Guantanamo Bay victim, imprisoned without trial?

OUT campaigning, former deputy PM John Prescott said he will be remembered for punching a voter in 2001. Perhaps, but the image of him seducing his diary secretary Tracey Temple under a portrait of Oliver Cromwell in his office takes some beating.