When comparing Sir Keir Starmer to other recent Prime Ministers then it isn’t very good news when in the head to heads he only betters Liz Truss who was the Derby County 2007/08 of UK Prime Ministers. The head to head I find the most fascinating is that Boris Johnson is barely beating Sir Keir, compared to the much larger lead that David Cameron enjoys, which bodes ill for those who want to se a Boris Johnson comeback. The good…
I find this polling illuminating where the reality meets the fantasy, although the voters are pretty thick when it comes to understanding inflation as I pointed out in June 2023. I wouldn’t advise Labour to tell the voters they are better off, inflation jumping to 3% will not help their cause. TSE
I am reminded that appeasement was popular until it wasn’t but Starmer might become even more unpopular if he does the right thing. Si vis pacem, para bellum should be the mantra for Europe now. TSE
Picture above: Screenshot from today’s edition of The Times It is curious that somebody is clearly gunning for Rachel Reeves, we’ve had several stories that are sub-optimal for her. None of these stories on their own are resigning/sacking offences but on a cumulative basis they are problematic. I cannot see any exit date markets/next Chancellor markets at the moment but Reeves is becoming a problem for Starmer, although these stories would be political flotsam and jetsam if her stewardship of…
When it comes making successful political predictions the only rival Nadine Dorries has is Sion Simon so when I saw her prediction today I am now certain Kemi Badenoch will be Tory leader for a while yet. Nadine Dorries has made outlandish predictions in the past, such as David Cameron succeeding Sunak after the election being just one example. The 8.33% return in just over four months Ladbrokes are offering is worth backing in my humble opinion, I do expect…
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I’m with Keiran Pedley, however as we can see since the Tories changed their leadership rules, only David Cameron served for more than 38 months, he truly was an exception, the Tory party should go back to those strong and stable years but I don’t think they have a David Cameron in the current parliamentary party. TSE
It is clear that somebody has it in for Rachel Reeves and the story about her CV and her past conduct continues to snowball, the allegations made in today’s Times newspaper is a new addition to the allegations against her. For the first time I genuinely think she might be in trouble as the comments by her spokesman when these allegations were put to them didn’t contain an outright denial, although I may well be over parsing these comments A…