There’s a new ComRes online poll out. Conservatives 33 (+1) Labour 42 (nc) Lib Dems 10 (nc) UKIP 8 (-1) On the leadership ratings, David Cameron’s net rating is minus 27, no change from last month. Ed Miliband’s net rating is minus 20, last month it was minus 17. So overall, Ed’s maintains a lead, but smaller than last month. Nick Clegg’s rating have improved from minus 42 last month, this month it is minus 35 Other findings from the…
Conservatives 30 (+1) Labour 41 (-4) Lib Dems 11 (+2) UKIP 9 (nc) There’s a new Angus Reid Poll out, the changes are from the last Angus Reid poll in June. On the Leadership ratings scores, the leaders net ratings are as follows David Cameron minus 23% Nick Clegg minus 48% Ed Miliband minus 17% Angus Reid polled online 2,012 randomly selected British adults who are Springboard UK panellists between August 14 to August 15, There’s a ComRes poll out this evening. There are…
Henry G Manson asks whether we are seeing the return of the nasty party? Ten years ago Home Secretary Theresa May told her party’s annual conference that too often the Conservative Party was viewed as “the nasty partyâ€. There’s been considerable efforts shake off that image under David Cameron since 2005 with a new stance of social issues. Peter Hoskins writing at Conservative Home and in the Times warns the Prime Minister of a “fresh sourness†in some of his recent…
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Academic Guest slot Ratings of Conservative party competence declined more than any government in its first year since 1945, research by Dr Jane Green (University of Manchester) and Dr Will Jennings (University of Southampton) reveals. The authors calculate an overall competence score based on public evaluations of parties on different policy issues. Using this new measure (named ‘macro-competence’), based on over 3,000 polls in Great Britain over 67 years, and comparing governments between 1945 and 2010, their analysis reveals that…
The Ipsos-Mori Voting Intention and Leadership ratings are out. On the voting intention it is Conservatives 32 (+1) Labour 42 (-2) Lib Dems 11 (-1) Despite their lead being reduced, Labour will be delighted with a ten point lead with a phone pollster. On the leadership ratings. David Cameron has seen an improvement from a net rating of  minus 27 in July to a net rating of minus 16 this month. Ed Miliband has also seen an improvement, in July…
Click to see BBC regional news report Is this the issue to put Labour on the defensive? A good by-election campaign always needs a good local issue – especially one that in skillful hands can be used to portray the front-runner in a poor light. Enter the Corby Cube – which opened on 2 November 2010 and cost £47.5m. It houses a chamber for the Borough Council, a Registry Office, a public library, a 450-seat theatre and a 100-seat studio…
Up to 25 *Tories* would vote against boundary review – six of the eight in Wales for example. Cameron will ditch this Autumn, I think — Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) August 16, 2012 The above Tweet from Sam Coates of the Times is the first attempt that I can recall to calculate how many Tory rebels there’d be on the boundaries if it ever got to a vote. The Coates projection of 25 would be enough to kill the plan…