Election odds: Brian May ‘more likely MP’ than Al Murray

With 92 days to go, what about a different perspective on the election campaign? Here’s a selection of odds currently being offered by bookmakers:

4/5 on Ed Miliband becoming the next PM: William Hill reports that a client from Hampstead has placed £5,000 on Ed at those odds. He or she must be feeling VERY confident about their north London neighbour: they would make a profit of only £4,000.

25/1 on Brian May being elected an MP: According to the Mirror, the Queen guitarist and anti-badger cull campaigner is giving "serious thought" to standing as an independent as part of his Common Decency project.

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33/1 on Al Murray winning South Thanet: This is the Kent seat where Murray - aka the Pub Landord - is taking on Nigel Farage the Ukip leader. The longer odds suggest that Brian May (above) has more appeal as a celebrity candidate than the comedian.

20/1 on Liz Kendall becoming the next Labour leader: Liz who? She’s the favourite among Blairite MPs who are expected to wrest back control of the party if Team Miliband fails on 7 May. Some refer unkindly to the ‘Blair Witch Project’. But as Political Betting reports, those who put their money on when the bookies were offering 50/1 are feeling smug.

12/5 on David Cameron NOT taking part in a multi-party TV debate: With The Spectator’s Isabel Hardman writing up the PM’s performance in a Sky News Q&A this week under the headline ‘Young voters show up why Cameron wants to avoid TV debates’… well, this might be worth a punt.

9/2 on the election resulting in a Labour-SNP coalition: It’s not many days since William Hill was offering 13/2 on this result – but the bookmaker now says: “Quietly, but substantially, political pundits have been steaming into the Labour-SNP coalition odds, forcing the price down to its lowest level ever.”