Vote of confidence

FIRST DATES | Channel 4 10PM

“My god, I love George Osborne!” Not a sentence you hear every day (and, we’d suggest, with good reason), but the former chancellor is the sort of man that 23-year-old Conservative Party activist Lettie is looking for – someone who’s opinionated and engaged with the world.

So the First Dates team have set her up with 26-year-old Cambridge graduate Fred, who once worked for the Lib Dems. As we discovered from 2010-15, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats aren’t necessarily a political match made in heaven, but as Fred puts it, “…we used to be friends?” It’s somewhere to start, at least.

Elsewhere in the restaurant, octogenarian Londoner Doreen is looking for a man who will make her feel good. Could author James be the right guy to write her a love story?