swingometer

Jeremy Vine – and the famous swingometer – will be broadcasting from Cardiff, Kirsty Wark from Glasgow, and Andrea Catherwood from Belfast.

Mustafa Suleyman's appointment nudges our imaginary swingometer firmly in the direction of the Seattle-based tech giant.

He co-invented the swingometer, a graphics device used to show the shift of votes from one party to another.

Between elections, he spent time in America - serving as personal assistant to the British ambassador - and took his swingometer to Australia.

It was better, he suggested, when the swingometer was made out of cardboard.