The sentiment moves to Cameron After favourable press comment at the weekend and his emergence as the clear challenger to David Davis the money has been piling on David Cameron to be the next Tory leader. Since Friday the best bookmaker price on the young Etonian has tightened from 7/1 to 5/1 and the signs are that this will move further. In a flattering piece in the Sunday Times under the heading At last, a fanciable Tory Indira Knight writes…
Will Singapore see another UK-France stand-off? Expect a huge amount of betting over the next 72 hours as Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac fly to Singapore where on Wednesday the 115 members of the IOC will decide on which city will get the 2012 Olympic Games. Although strictly this is not politics the choice will have a huge political impact in the cities and countries of the five contenders – Paris, London, Madrid, New York and Moscow – and it…
Would PM Brown put two fingers up to precedent? In the days after the General Election we said that putting money on Ed Balls at 4.6/1 to be the next Chancellor was a cost effective way of bettting on Gordon Brown to be the next Labour leader. Our reasoning was that that only Balls, Brown’s long-serving advisor at the Treasury, could conceivably be Brown’s Chancellor. Only he would have the confidence of his boss and the odds on him becoming…
Davis-red, Cameron-blue, Rifkind-green, Clarke-black, Fox-pink Has Cameron established himself as the clear challenger? If the betting markets have got this right it looks as though the battle for the Tory leadership is now down to a straight fight between David David and David Cameron. The Shadow Education Secretary has made some progress in the best betting prices following calls by his supporters for the other candidates to throw the towel in and support their man. Even so the young Etonian…