BBC News After all the speculation we now have the ruling on David Laws – the Lib Dem cabinet minsters who lasted just 17 days last May after the Telegraph made allegation about his expense claims. The report accepts that his motivation was to protect his privacy but goes on to say that “Whatever his motives and subsequent behaviour, Mr Laws was guilty of a series series of breaches of the rules”. He’ll be suspended from the Commons for seven…
You have either got “it†or you haven’t Is it possible for you to put yourself in the place of an ordinary voter without a particularly strong party allegiance one way or the other? Imagine you catch a glimpse of these two first time on video. Unfortunately the sound is turned down. Now, answer this question immediately …… Which of these two do you think would make the best Prime Minister? There, you now know which of the two main…
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Latest PAPA CON 37: LAB 38.6: LD 11.8 The latest PAPA, the Politicalbetting All Pollsters’ Average has Labour with its smallest lead over the Tories since November 2010 and if the trend shown in the chart continues we could be heading another cross-over. Even the latest YouGov – which has had Miliband’s party in the 40s in every single poll in 2011, has the gap down to just two points. Certainly the Tories appear to be getting a polling boost…
How different it all seems one year on Today’s my 65th birthday and, as no doubt it will be hard to avoid today, the first anniversary of that Tuesday in May 2010 when Gordon Brown, Sarah and his two children left Number 10 for the last time as PM. I’m celebrating (my birthday that is) with a cup of Darjeeling First Flush 2011 Orange Valley which for any PB tea buffs is absolutely sensational and well worth the £15.95 for…
Why didn’t his party pick up any more councillors? There’ve been calls during the day for Nigel Farage to step down as UKIP leader following his party’s dismal performance last Thursday. After the strong showing in the Barnsley by-election and putting up nearly thirteen hundred candidates in last week’s local elections the party saw no return for all its efforts. The key UKIP figure, former EU Chief Accountant Marta Andreasen, has said that it’s time for the leader, who was…
Will he become a minister again? According to the London Evening Standard, David Laws, the Lib Dem Chief Secretary of the treasury who stood down last May after allegations about his parliamentary expenses, broke six sets of rules according to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner who has just completed an investigation into the affair. The question is whether the report is so critical that no immediate return to a ministerial career is possible. We’ll have to wait to see the detail…
It’s CON 37: LAB 39: LD 11 There’s a new Populus phone poll in the Times which sees the Tories edging up a point with Labour dropping one and the Lib Dems unchanged. This means that all the phone polls this month have Labour in the 30s. This is in sharp contrast to the online firms which have Ed Miliband’s party a few notches higher. YouGov, for instance, has had the main opposition party in the 40s throughout 2011. With…