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Mister Chip cruises home in 1st Round Competition Following the drama of the first round of the French Presidential election, the results of the competition on pb.com can now be confirmed. Strictly speaking the contest will await ratification of the election results by the Constitutional Council, but the Interior Ministry figures would have to be very inaccurate to change the outcome of the competition, and this is extremely unlikely to be the case. Given the first round results of Sarkzoy…

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The chart shows the price movements on the Betfair market over the past six hours. Royal, who was at 3/1 this morning, is now at 1.95.1. Mike Smithson

The light shines on Guido. From left to right here we have David Kendrick, Jonathan, Paul Maggs (Double Carpet) and Guido – a very rare picture! Julian h and Ian Jones with the suited Marcus Wood in the background My daughters Becky and Cayt, me speaking, Peter from Putney and TomThumb Augustus Carp showing people round the National Liberal Club. David Herson (yellow tie) is at the back. Could those in the picture who I have not identified please make…

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This has just been published on the The First Post site and it looks as though we might still be arguing over which quarter Blair will cease to be Labour leader. Mike Smithson

My voice-mail from the Mole I’ve just picked up a voice-mail message that was left on my mobile by a Scottish sounding man earlier this evening. He said he was “The Mole” of The First Post fame. This is the full text of the message that was left: “Mike you wont me know but I think you read my column – I write the Mole in the First Post. I’m just phoning you to give you heads up that you…

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Win this biography of Sego provided by Politcos For each of the candidates listed, predict their percentage share of the vote in the first round of the French Presidential election. Make your predictions to up to one decimal place. François Bayrou (UDF) Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN) Ségolène Royal (PS) Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP) Your score for each candidate will be the absolute difference between your prediction and their actual result, and your overall score will be the sum of your four…

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Can either party get anybody to take on Ken? Tonight’s extraordinary story about the joint Lib Dem and Tory approach to Greg Dyke to run against Ken Livingstone for the London mayoralty shows what a mess the two main opposition parties have got over next year’s London Mayoral elections. For both of them have had real problems finding decent candidates who are prepared to give up maybe 10 months for a prolonged campaign up to May next year. Nobody of…

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The book that came out of the blog What the publishers, Harriman House, are describing as the “first book on political betting” was published yesterday and a number of site users have already received their copies. Those who were at the party were able to buy it at a special rate and by clicking the picture above a good deal is available. If this is a success then it’s possible that there could be an annual publication with updates and…

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