Is this the politics for those who believe the Diana conspiracy? The Daily Express is not one of those papers that often gets cited on PB, or indeed other political sites, for its most noted for its front pages on the Diana conspiracy and regular new cures for one form of cancer or another. So how are we to regard it’s launch of a campaign crusade today to get the UK out of the EU? Is this going to resonate…
Latest PAPA shares – CON 37.2: LAB 38.4: LD 13.2 Tonight’s YouGov daily poll has more bad news for the Lib Dems – down to nine percent which equals their lowest share ever with the online polling firm. YouGov has been reporting significantly smaller LD shares than the other pollsters but the trend from all of them is the same – a declining share for the junior coalition partner. This has an impact on PAPA – the PB All Pollster’s…
PB All Pollsters’ Average Date CON % LAB % LD % PAPA Current 24/11/10 37.6 38.4 13.4 PAPA October 2010 31/10/10 37.6 37.2 15.2 PAPA September 2010 30/09/10 37.8 37.0 14.8 PAPA August 2010 31/08/10 39.3 36.0 15.0 PAPA July 2010 31/07/10 40.0 36.7 15.0 PAPA June 2010 30/06/10 40.2 37.2 17.2 Labour edge upwards as the LDs dive Here it is – the first PB All Pollsters’ Average (PAPA) as was trailed on a thread last week. Taking in…
A guest slot on the Labour leader as he returns to PMQs Much has been made of Ed Miliband’s decision making and lack of media coverage since becoming Leader of the Labour Party. Eyebrows were raised over the roles allocated to Alan Johnson and Phil Woolas; Johnson has made it clear there are differences of opinion on policy within the opposition, while the Woolas court case raised the issue of party unity. All the while Ed has been out of…
This clip is doing the rounds tonight – the Alan Johnson REd slip, courtesy of Tim Montgomerie. Watching it doesn’t appear to be a gaffe at all. Maybe that is what he calls his party leader in private. The big political point is that the shadow chancellor seems to have a different view of the way forward than his leader. Mike Smithson
Or is Andy Coulson just going to shake it all off..again? According to Paul Waugh there’s no truth in the strong suggestion by Tom Watson MP that the former NOTW editor and now Number 10 press chief, Andy Coulson, could be out by Christmas. Watson is certainly cranking this one up but I can’t see how anything short of Coulson being charged and going on trial will spark a resignation. Whatever there is a danger that Cameron’s decision to stick…
Should the electoral calendar have been taken into account? So now we have the day for the royal wedding – and the plan is to stage it on Friday April 29 just before the May bank holiday so many people will gain the benefit of a long weekend. But what’s it going to do campaigning for the elections due to take place on May 5th? That day sees voting right across the UK with the av referendum, the four yearly…