Surely if you stand for Parliament and are elected you should be forced to serve the

[Burney]

True. It seems we are to find out whether Paul Nuttall can do it on a wet Thursday afternoon in Stoke

Labour will probably still squeak it. Tories and UKIP will cancel out a lot of each others' vote, while the Lib Dems will get a chunk of Labour, but possibly not that much.

Corbyn will then describe this as a ringing endorsement of his leadership.