As Labour heads to Liverpool, Keiran Pedley and Leo Barasi look at the polling and ask whether it is in Labour’s interests to offer another vote on Brexit. They lay out the case for and against and debate what happens next. Follow this week’s guests: Follow @KeiranPedley Follow @LeoBarasi Tweet
Meanwhile Phil Collins is dead right – while the Tories go through their Brexit travails all Corbyn's LAB wants to talk about is itself https://t.co/NYSLTbXBkN — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 21, 2018 Today’s Times column by Phillip Collins hits the nail on the head about Labour and its current state. “..The issues of the hour are historic. Are any of the half-formed answers to the Irish border question at all practicable? Will the strong desire of the European Union 27…
Punters are hanging on to their cash Given the enormity of what’s happened at the EU Salzburg summit I though it useful to look at reaction across a range of market on the Betfair exchange: Next UK General Election most seats It was CON 50% chance to LAB 45% on Betfair 24 hours ago and the position hasn’t moved UK to leave the EU by 29/03/2019 This was a 63.5% chance 24 hours ago and is now a 62.5% one….
Rarely has a prime minister looked more isolated both home and abroad. Great pic from the inimitable @StefanRousseau pic.twitter.com/HTJESvrJ21 — Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) September 20, 2018 it feels pretty serious out here for the prospects of a deal – what's more worrying is it seems again the two sides have misunderstood each other's politics but, but, but, a lot of huffing and puffing and a bust up was probably inevitable at some point https://t.co/FocRTHE7c2 — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 20,…
YouGov have just published a poll which shows how readers of different newspapers are viewing brexit and how they would vote in a new referendum. For some reason the Sun does not appear to be included. In broad terms the results are what you would expect with Guardian readers being staunchly for Remain while Express ones are for Leave. But there are some surprises. To me the big one is the Daily Telegraph where the split is 45% remain to…
Keiran Pedley is joined by Mark Pack of the Lib Dem Newswire to discuss this week’s Lib Dem conference. Keiran and Mark discuss how the conference went and where the party goes from here and Mark gives everyone an outside tip on who the next Lib Dem leader might be when Vince Cable steps down. Listen to the latest episode here: Follow this week’s guests: Follow @KeiranPedley Follow @MarkPack Tweet
Nearly a half believe Trump campaign colluded with Russia & he was aware A 6k sample poll of US voters has just been published by Lord Ashcroft and sets the scene for the important midterm elections that take place in the first week in November. Currently the Democratic party is enjoying reasonable leads in generic Congressional polls and the betting is on the party re-taking control of the House. But a much tighter battle is taking place for control of…
GE17 LAB polling understatement doesn’t mean that the same will happen next time One of the things that true believer Corbynistas keep telling me on Twitter is that last year’s general election was a turning point in British politics and that the rules have changed. Thus anything that doesn’t fit into this narrative has to be swept away and dismissed. A key point here is current polling both voting intention and leader ratings which don’t support the contention that their…