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BBC Today programme Has he helped or hindered his job prospects? The foreign secretary, David Miliband, figures prominently in two current betting markets – that for next leader of the Labour party where he’s the 5/1 second favourite and for the first High Representative of the EU where he’s now been installed as the 3/1 joint favourite. Anybody interested in betting on both might be wise to spend thirteen minutes listening to this item on Radio 4’s Today programme this…

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Two polls show UK voters are lukewarm Only hours after Gordon Brown told a Brussels press conference that “there is a general view that Tony Blair is a good candidate and would be an excellent president” two new polls suggest that there is little support for the plan from British voters. For although it’s suggested that some progress might be being made with EU leaders the Labour effort isn’t resonating with voters at home. YouGov for the Daily Telegraph found…

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CON 40%(nc) LAB 27%(-1) LD 18%(-1) And just five more people say they are voting BNP Possibly the most significant number in tonight’s Comres poll for the Independent is the share for the BNP after the massive focus on the party last week in the run-up to the fieldwork. All sorts of figures were being bandied about over the possible effect and yet the share only moves up from 1% ten days ago to 2% – and a lot of…

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How do you rate the chances of Gordon Brown leading Labour at the General Election? There’s a 51% chance or more that he will There’s a 50% chance or less that he won’t   

Adrian Short Overnight continuation thread

Is it simply that he doesn’t have the communication skills? From the extracts that the BBC news channel has been running over the past hour we are getting a sense of what tonight’s Question Time recording was like. A hostile highly articulate audience facing a man who, being blunt about it, didn’t get over any message very well and seemed, at times, to be inarticulate. I was expecting well thought-out sound-bites on how his party was fighting for sections of…

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Should the BBC have invited Nick Griffin to appear on the panel of tonight’s Question Time? The BBC was wrong The BBC was right