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The controversial former Labour MP is the bookies' favourite to be the new MP for Rochdale.

On February 14 1998, the ballerina Deborah Bull wrote in her diary: “I rush down to the front door to check the post”. The results were disappointing. “No deluge of Valentine cards”, she noted, adding hopefully, “unless they had all gone to the Opera House”. Six years later, in 2004, Oona King MP spent Valentine’s Day in a rather different way: “I’m sitting on a runway in Saudi Arabia. I’m not supposed to be here. Bangladesh Airlines – Biman – took a wrong turn …”

I’m not arguing that because other people have made the same comparison I have, I am right. What I am trying to do is add a time dimension to this conversation. What struck me about this comparison is that King made it three years before Israel imposed the siege regime on Gaza. And it was the time dimension that was also absent from the challenges that the reporter offered yesterday, when she talked about population density and the smuggling of weapons. The population of the ghettos changed over time (and weapons were indeed smuggled in). 

The London mayor fears most voters are unaware of the change to a first past the post system that may boost the Tory candidate

The radio presenter, 44, confirmed she and Mark, 38, will be taking to the ice together in January in an Instagram post she shared on Thursday.