There are only 14 days until we go to the polls
Time to take your protein pills and put your helmet on – we’re about to go floating in a most peculiar way. Australian astronomers have used a supercomputer to give us stunning new views of the Milky Way, the galaxy we hadn’t hitherto seen properly because we’re right in the middle of it. Boris Johnson, our space cadet at No 10, has been handed a similarly far-out new perspective this morning. The YouGov geeks have put a huge amount of poll data into their supercomputer and come up with the first major projection of the campaign – giving the Tories a hefty majority of 68. An out-of-this-world ideal for the PM. Can he make it a reality in two weeks’ time? Or can Jeremy Corbyn cause a cosmic disturbance before then? I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing.
