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New YouGov polling finds Brits more ready consider traveling overseas than foreigners ready to come to the UK

New YouGov polling finds Brits more ready consider traveling overseas than foreigners ready to come to the UK

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Given the current Covid19 figures for the UK then it is hardly surprising that Brits are more inclined to consider travelling to other countries than those who live there want to come here. The biggest gap is with France which in normal times is the UK favourite travel destination. As can be seen 21% of Brits would consider going to France compared with just 5% of French people ready to consider coming in the other direction. Essentially the pandemic league…

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House effect. The Polish presidential election

House effect. The Polish presidential election

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Not Europe again?  I’m afraid so.  Fortunately, this time it’s for an election: the Polish presidential election.  The health of Poland’s democracy has been in question for some time, with the government going down the Hungarian route of controlling the media, packing the courts and using chicanery to exploit the advantages of government to the hilt. The Polish public have the opportunity, should they so choose, to change this on Sunday.  The second round of the presidential election takes place…

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A big day for Sunak – now as big a threat to Starmer as he is to Johnson

A big day for Sunak – now as big a threat to Starmer as he is to Johnson

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Rishi who was 250/1 when tipped on PB as next PM eight months ago Today the big political news will be the summer statement by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, which is being dubbed “the Coronacvirus Mini Budget”. This comes after an extraordinary nine months when has emerged from relative obscurity to be one of the biggest players in UK politics. He’s betting favourite to be Johnson’s successor and second favourite, behind Starmer, for next PM. It is hard to realise…

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Passing the buck Boris style

Passing the buck Boris style

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 The PM is at the centre of a new storm tonight after he was reported to have put part of the blame for care home 20k+ pandemic deaths onto the care home themselves. According to the Guardian report linked to in the Tweet above Speaking during a visit to Goole in Yorkshire, Johnson said the pandemic had shown the need to “make sure we look after people better who are in social care”. He went on: “We discovered too many…

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Tonight’s Keiran Pedley Ipsos-MORI podcast: Assessing the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson

Tonight’s Keiran Pedley Ipsos-MORI podcast: Assessing the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson

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This week Kieran Pedley is joined by former Deputy Chief of Staff to David Cameron, Baroness Kate Fall and by Asa Bennett, Brexit Editor at the Daily Telegraph. Interspersed with insights from Ipsos MORI polling, they look at the state the Conservative Party finds itself in now; how it might differ from the party led by David Cameron; and the challenge posed to the future of the Conservatives in government by the election of Keir Starmer as leader of the…

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The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Unionism

The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Unionism

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What is Liberal Unionism? Is the current CON Government, actually a Liberal Unionist one?  Wikipedia has a history of the Liberal Unionist Party:. The most well-known Liberal Unionist arguably was Joseph Chamberlain, father of Neville, and for 19 days leader of the Opposition in 1906 after Balfour lost his seat in Manchester as part of the disastrous Conservative election defeat. Conservatives have called themselves Unionist for a long period and indeed it was the official name until the 1970s but…

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In betting terms the Moran-Davey battle in the LD race looks close but there’s little to base things on

In betting terms the Moran-Davey battle in the LD race looks close but there’s little to base things on

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In the aftermath of Jo Swinson defeat in her constituency at the December 2019 general election the Lib Dems decided to postpone the process for selecting her replacement until after the planned 2020 May local elections. Well coronavirus put paid to that plan and then the party decided that the leadership election should take place a year on in the spring of 2021. That proved to be very controversial within the membership and a revised timetable was agreed with nominations…

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