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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Emily Bell

Maggie May

Michael Howard's battle wagon is being resprayed to start work on Monday as Rod Stewart's tour bus. So it will be a bit of a change carrying round an old bloke with a funny voice and an attractive wife....or will it? Which makes me wonder what the election night playlist at the respective party parties will be. Suggestions, if you're still up.

Meanwhile on ITV Michael Portillo has switched sides for the evening from the BBC to also sit behind a huge table (not as big as the BBC's, of course) and they have Gerald Scarfe sketching cartoons including one of Gordon Brown pulling Tony Blair off a plinth in the manner of the fall of Baghdad. Roy Hattersley 'likes the idea if not the metaphor'.

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