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The restoration of hanging, corporal punishment & blue passports – the key post-Brexit priorities for Leave voters

The restoration of hanging, corporal punishment & blue passports – the key post-Brexit priorities for Leave voters

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What YouGov found earlier in the year The point that Professor John Curtice made yesterday about the big dividing politics British politics has become between social liberals and social conservatives is very much backed up by the above polling published by YouGov earlier in the year. All the options that the sample was offered are in the chart above and as can be seen hanging and corporal punishment are at the top of the list for the voters followed by…

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Why those opposed to Brexit shouldn’t get too excited by the BMG 10% Remain lead poll

Why those opposed to Brexit shouldn’t get too excited by the BMG 10% Remain lead poll

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Ex-YouGov President, Peter Kellner, says be cautious The former President of YouGov and leading political commentator, Peter Kellner, has written a comprehensive note about the BMG poll for the Indy which has Remain 10% ahead to a question of how those sampled would vote in a future referendum. In his look at the BMG numbers Kellner notes: “First, they are mainly driven by a seemingly huge shift in people who did not vote in last year’s referendum. Sure, the Remain…

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Jacob Rees-Mogg might not even be a Tory MP at the time of the next Tory leadership contest

Jacob Rees-Mogg might not even be a Tory MP at the time of the next Tory leadership contest

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.@Jacob_Rees_Mogg on transition deal: “We cannot be a colony of the EU for two years from 2019 to 2021, accepting new laws that are made without any say-so from the British people, parliament or government…that is being a vassal state of the EU” #newsnight pic.twitter.com/PVMWYDnrgB — BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) December 15, 2017 Could JRM be without the Tory whip at the time of the next leadership contest? One of the reasons I’m laying Jacob Rees-Mogg in the next Tory leader/PM…

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To get the tone right it has to come from the top

To get the tone right it has to come from the top

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Labour MP @DavidLammy recorded £2,713.25 worth of flights and hospitality for a trip to Washington D.C in September 2017 funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation. https://t.co/DIgAukz0co ??? https://t.co/CO80DOrzgh pic.twitter.com/DVWb7QJ5ok — LEAVE.EU ?? (@LeaveEUOfficial) November 16, 2017 Cyclefree on why this is so important During the 1983 campaign, Saatchi suggested a poster showing Michael Foot on Hampstead Heath with his walking stick looking like a scruffy old man and the caption “Even Pensioners are Better Off under the Conservatives”. Thatcher…

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The real problem for TMay from last night’s vote could be when the Brexit bill goes to the Lords

The real problem for TMay from last night’s vote could be when the Brexit bill goes to the Lords

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The revolt could give their Lordships more confidence to make their own amendments James Forsyth’s latest Spectator podcast makes a very good point about one consequence of last night’s Commons rebellion – it will make it much harder for the bill to get through the Upper House unamended. It is clear that there is a fairly strong majority amongst against Brexit amongst peers but the government always felt that if Lords received the bill which had not been altered against…

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Paying the price of TMay’s GE17 gamble. Tonight the saboteurs struck back and won

Paying the price of TMay’s GE17 gamble. Tonight the saboteurs struck back and won

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We all remember the memorable front page of Dacre’s Daily Mail the day after Theresa May called her snap general election in April. For the whole point of building up the number of Tory MPs was to give TMay The Commons numbers so that those who were in disagreement, particularly those within the party, were unable to impede what she was doing. It all seems so easy then. The Tories had a small majority and TMay was expecting that with…

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Why are the Eurosceptics not kicking up more of a fuss?

Why are the Eurosceptics not kicking up more of a fuss?

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May looks set for an easier ride The Conservative whips are doing their job well. Evening after evening, the government records consistent majorities in the teens or twenties as it protects its Brexit Bill unamended through the Commons. More innovatively, we saw this morning a flurry of tweets and statements from Tory MPs and ministers lauding Theresa May for her tough diplomacy in delivering a good interim Brexit deal. That helped set the news agenda. To some extent, there was…

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