Labour move to an 8 point lead with Populus
And the LDs drop to a new low in a phone poll With the YouGov daily poll, however, Labour’s lead drops to 3 points tonight. It has CON 37%: LAB 40%: LD 9%.
Would EdM fare better if he dropped his Balls?
Does having Ed Balls as Shadow Chancellor help or hinder Ed Miliband? It helps It hinders It makes no difference either way Mike Smithson returns from his holiday in Andalusia this Thursday Recent Threads
What part will Herman Cain play in 2012?
Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) Morus examines the candidate leading the GOP polls It’s not easy for the party outwith the White House to unseat a sitting (elected) President. Since the last depression, FDR, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and GW Bush all strode to re-election. Truman retired, JFK was shot, Johnson beaten by his own party, Ford was never elected. Carter would be unique, were it not for the three-way split caused by Ross Perot that allowed Clinton to beat GHW…
Sunday into Monday with NightHawks
Ed slips in the ComRes post conference leadership ratings
Mike Smithson returns from Spain on Thursday
After the resignation, what’s in the Sundays?
Could taxes on flights (and facelifts?) be a political battleground? Fox may be firmly back at home and on the backbenches (and how many of you had winning bets on his departure – or Hammond’s arrival?), but the reverberations continue in today’s Sunday papers. The Sunday Telegraph reports that Werritty received money from donors to “promote their political agenda but were furious to discover the cash was used to fund his lavish lifestyle†– and donors expecting to remain secret…
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Who won and who lost from the Fox-hunt?
Wikimedia Commons Where do the week’s events leave the Next Tory Leader market? After the kill, politics moves on quickly. With Fox having resigned, the media interest in what his friend Adam Werritty did, knew, and where the funding for it came from is likely to dwindle rapidly. There may be further revelations this weekend because the media will have invested in the investigation but that should then be that. Even if Gus O’Donnell’s report is made public, the coverage…