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There must be a chance that he’ll try to stand for parliament PaddyPower offering 7/1 that Hugh Grant will stand to be an MP.. Seems a reasonable bet. bit.ly/I8PkIO. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 19, 2013 The PaddyPower 7/1 looks a good bet PaddyPower also offering JK Rowling 16/1, Rebekah Brooks 25/1,Sienna Miller & Steve Coogan 33/1 to stand as MPs. Mike Smithson For the latest polling and political betting news Follow @MSmithsonPB

An eve of budget YouGov boost for Osborne? Last LAB government getting more blame for cuts. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 19, 2013 Unless this gap narrows a LAB victory cannot be assured Today’s YouGov, just published, has the usual economy trackers including the above – who is most to blame for the current spending cuts. The last LAB government, as can be seen, is getting an increasing amount of the blame. This comes after a period which has…

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Will today be seen as the start of the LAB-LD coalition? Good piece by the FT’s Janan Ganesh on.ft.com/YmUynn twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 18, 2013 Janan Ganesh has a good piece for tomorrow’s FT in which he suggests that the key political development that today symbolises is the bringing together Miliband and Clegg. He writes:- “…The news that Labour politicians are revising their low opinion of Mr Clegg will not surprise senior Tories, who mocked him in opposition only…

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Will Miliband be seen as the victor? Labour source: ‘After 5 1/2 hour of talks which ended at 230 we’re confident we’ve agreement around our royal charter entrenched in statute’ — James Chapman (Mail) (@jameschappers) March 18, 2013 It’s being suggested that Leveson legislative measures will go into the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform bill instead of courts bill — Gary O’Donoghue (@BlindGazza) March 18, 2013 RT “@sophyridgesky: Labour saying it’s their Charter – with their position on apologies & press…

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Times front page reporting that Cameron ready to give ground over press reform. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 17, 2013

ComRes favourable/unfavourable ratings showing EdM’s doing worse against his party then Dave,Nick or Nigel twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 17, 2013 The latest ComRes poll features a range of questions that are very common in the USA but which we rarely see in the UK – favourable/unfavourable ratings for people and parties. I like this questioning a lot and let’s hope that the ComRes surveys for the Indy on Sunday/ S Mirror do it on a regular basis. To…

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Big ICM boost for Ukip in S Telegraph. See front page. twitter.com/suttonnick/sta… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013 The Ukip bandwagon rolls on with ComRes online now having them on 17% & CON in the 20s. Pie chart with changes on Feb twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013 ICM Wisdom Index chart from S Telegraph. twitter.com/suttonnick/sta… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013

See the huge falls in circulation numbers Revised version of the newspaper circulation table. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013 Getting the best out of “new Disqus Yesterday the Disqus comment system was changed in a manner that doesn’t fit with the way PB operates. Unlike the old Disqus we are unable to change key features. For the vast majority of us who like following chronological threads change the option under the discussion menu to new or old….

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