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PoliticsHome Is that why there’s so much continuing mis-trust? There’s a big report out today produced by the newly established YouGov Cambridge and PoliticHome. You can see see Mark Gettleson’s full document here. What strikes me is the gap between the modest overall support for many of the Lansley proposals and the continuing perceptions about the Tory party and the NHS. This is how Gettleson sums it up:- The key explanation however is around the fact voters still don’t trust…

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Source FT How can EdM improve the party’s income? Thanks to Jim Packard and Elizabeth Rigby in the FT for spotting this – but according to the latest party fundraising data from the Electoral Commission for the six months to March 31st the Lib Dems are out-fundraising Labour by three to one from individual and corporate donors. They note that the biggest source of money to Labour is the tax-payer (£5.7m) and the unions (£4.6m). What does this say about…

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More of Marf’s work can be found at LondonSketchbook.com.

Guardian Have they the power to stop the changes going through? There’s a story in today’s Guardian that adds to information I’ve been getting in the past few days – that the Lib Dems might veto the planned boundary changes when these come up for parliamentary approval some time before the 2015 general election. The Guardian report notes that under the plan to decrease the number of MPs from 650 to 600 it is projected that the Lib Dem could…

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Or could the SNP produce some of their May 5th magic? The upcoming Inverclyde by-election will be the fifth since the general election but only the first to be called because of the death or illness of the incumbent MP. All the other contests have been either prompted by the courts in one way or another – Phill Woolas/Eric Illsley – or else because the May 5th winner wanted to fight an election for a position outside Westminster – Sir…

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