Trying to label the vital voters who make all the difference in a close-run general election is not always easy.

But a new demographic character called “Motorway Man” has been defined by Rob Hayward (you may remember the ever-wise Hayward told you about the potential clash between football fixtures and the election TV debate long before it made the news this weekend). Read more

Tories back off from plans to give Sir Richard Dannatt a peerage and job as defence minister

Lord Mandelson explains how he bought his abode: “If you ask me whether I would rather have my nice terraced house…or have my mother still alive today, I would prefer my mother still to be alive”. Read more