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Gains for the LDs and Greens the highlights of this week’s local elections

Gains for the LDs and Greens the highlights of this week’s local elections

Caol and Mallig on Highland (SNP defence) First Preferences: Con 183 (9% unchanged on last time), Lib Dem 658 (31% +22% on last time), Campbell (Ind) 98 (5%), MacKinnon (Ind) 146 (7%), SNP 574 (27%, Wood (Ind) 454 (21%) (No Lab candidate this time -6%, Total Independent vote: 698 (33% -19% on last time) Liberal Democrat lead of 84 (4%) on a swing of 20.5% from Ind to Lib Dem No candidate elected on first count, Campbell (Ind) eliminated Second…

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Lord Chancellor David Gauke becomes 3/1 favourite for next Cabinet minister out after the High Court blocks the release of the black cab rapist

Lord Chancellor David Gauke becomes 3/1 favourite for next Cabinet minister out after the High Court blocks the release of the black cab rapist

Will TMay force him out or not? The big political betting development this afternoon have been a rush of money going on Lord Chancellor, David Gauke for next cabinet exit following a decision earlier by the High Court to block the release of the black cab rapist, John Worboys. The court ruled in favour of two of his victims to overturn a decision to release the black cab rapist. It decided that the Parole Board should make a “fresh determination”…

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The Foreign Office goes on the PR offence over Russian Salisbury disinformation

The Foreign Office goes on the PR offence over Russian Salisbury disinformation

The nerve agent came from Sweden,Ukraine did it to frame Russia,It was contamination from the UK's own research facility… Instead of providing an explanation for the Salisbury incident, Russia has launched a campaign of disinformation pic.twitter.com/dZQMXgnAFp — Foreign Office ?? (@foreignoffice) March 20, 2018 What say you Mr. Corbyn? The above video which has been issued by the Foreign Office looks appears to be a very different approach to diplomacy in relation to Russia than we have seen before. Clearly…

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The Pennsylvania result – What happens when you try to take away publicly funded healthcare

The Pennsylvania result – What happens when you try to take away publicly funded healthcare

The moves against ObamaCare seems to have been a big vote driver The US pollster Public Policy Polling carried out an on the day survey during Tuesday’s special Congressional election in Pennsylvania District 18. What is interesting from the data is that health care ranked as a top issue for 52% of voters and only 19% said it was not that important or not important at all. The data shows that the Democrat, Conor Lamb, won big especially among voters…

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TMay says it’s “highly likely” that Russia responsible for the Salisbury attacks – the question now is what Britain will do

TMay says it’s “highly likely” that Russia responsible for the Salisbury attacks – the question now is what Britain will do

Theresa May said it was “highly likely” that Russia is responsible for the poisoning of a former Russian spy https://t.co/zYJzVi0ZIM — BuzzFeed UK Politics (@BuzzFeedUKPol) March 12, 2018 May says government will consider Russian response on Wed. If there is no satisfactory answer the UK will deem the Kremlin has carried out "unlawful use of force" on British territory — Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) March 12, 2018 #Russian response to UK measures over Skripal may go beyond tit-for-tat. BBC likely to…

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Just launched new pollster featuring Martin Boon and Joe Twyman formerly of ICM and YouGov

Just launched new pollster featuring Martin Boon and Joe Twyman formerly of ICM and YouGov

Welcome to Deltapoll Today sees the launch of a brand new opinion research company, Deltapoll, which brings together names and faces that many people on this website might be familiar with. Joe Twyman has for years been the primary face of public opinion in the UK in his position as YouGov’s head of political research, and Martin Boon spend 23 years at ICM, delivering polls that have been relentlessly reported in these pages. Our third founder, Paul Flatters, is also…

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Until leave’s referendum expenses issues are sorted opponents will be able to cast doubt over Brexit’s legitimacy

Until leave’s referendum expenses issues are sorted opponents will be able to cast doubt over Brexit’s legitimacy

The overnight news that the government have refused the Electoral Commission’s desire for the sources of the DUP’s pre 2017 donations to be revealed will only add to speculation that something is amiss. What was the source of the £425k that TMay’s “supply & confidence” partners were given ahead of the referendum? In the meantime the Electoral Commission have confirmed to me that two previously announced campaign funding investigations continue – one into Leave EU and the other into the…

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