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Les Hinton, Tom Crone and Colin Myler all misled Parliament, DCMS Ctte rule. — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) May 1, 2012 Most explosive finding of MPs re hacking: Rupert Murdoch not a “fit person” to run a major international company. — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) May 1, 2012 Real political divisions coming out. Tory MP Philip Davies said certain people on cttee got carried away. Points out report only passed 6-4 — lucy manning (@lucymanning) May 1, 2012 Mensch: I would have…

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Populus : BJ 46, KL 34, JJ 6, BP 5, SB 5, LW 3, CC 1; 2nd round BJ 56 KL 44 — Mike Smithson (@MikeSmithsonOGH) April 30, 2012 Lib Dem gen elec voters split their votes evenly, 49 per cent for Mr Johnson, 51 per cent for Mr Livingstone across both rounds — Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) April 30, 2012 ComRes/ITV News: Hunt should resign say 49% to 16% ht.ly/aBLme — Andrew Hawkins (@Andrew_ComRes) April 30, 2012 So far…

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Cameron going the extra mile for Jeremy Hunt, loading ever more on #Leveson buys time, but may not pay off in the long run. — adamboulton (@adamboultonSKY) April 30, 2012 Cam line of giving everyone a chance, “It’s called natural justice”, was exactly same line he used during Fox hunt. — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) April 30, 2012 PM just can’t help flashing the Flashman at Skinner. Yet another jibe re his pensionable age. PM allies think Skinner deserves every word…

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If you would like to purchase one of Marf’s prints, please contact her at marfcartoons@btinternet.com From tomorrow’s papers Guardian: Bin Laden’s links to Taliban revealed – also P&O cruise staff ‘paid 75p an hour’ #tomorrowspaperstoday twitter.com/hendopolis/sta… — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) April 29, 2012 Express front: Flood chaos to sat all week #tomorrowspaperstoday twitter.com/hendopolis/sta… — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) April 29, 2012 FT: Cameron faces critical test #tomorrowspaperstoday twitter.com/hendopolis/sta… — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) April 29, 2012 Eurozone crisis has a long way…

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What’ll a victory next week do to his leadership ambitions? If both the national and London polls are reflected in next week’s London and national elections then Boris Johnson will be one of the few prominent Tories with something to smile about a week today. On a night that’s likely to see huge Tory losses, including possibly to their coalition partners the LDs, Johnson will have held on completely against the mid-term national trend. The message from City Hall will…

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Is Ken’s deficit -2% or -11.2%? Pollster Ken deficit on first preferences YouGov online -2% ComRes online -9% Survation online -11.2% Make no mistake real elections where real results can be compared to real final polls are absolutely critical to the pollsters’ concerned. These are moments when reputations can be won and lost and can have big impacts on their commercial success. Next Friday three pollsters will be waiting in eager anticipation for the declaration of the results in the…

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Have you any suggestions for PB online polls? On May 20th Jacky and I are heading to Barcelona, Cadiz and Ronda for two and a half weeks. Unlike my previous holidays there will be not be the same level of posting on PB. We will put up open threads and a number of pre-prepared guest slots. I’m hoping that we’ll get the latest voting intention poll details up. One daily feature which we can set up in advance is a…

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Their impact will be far less than might appear The two pollsters who are carrying out regular London Mayorals surveys, and ComRes and YouGov are both issuing two sets of numbers when they publish their results. These are the first preferences of those interviewed and then their estimation of what the final split between the top 2 will be. The media is tending to focus on the latter which might be misleading. My view is that we should put our…

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