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Plato reflects on the ending of political careers Falling on your sword for the good of the Party has never been a popular career choice for an aspiring politician, but are our MPs any less honourable than their predecessors? Most careers ending in ignoble resignation fall into four categories – a tabloid sex scandal, money and favours, a massive gaffe or a visit from the boys in blue. Simple incompetence barely registers, as the cross party praise for Estelle Morris…

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Latest PAPA shares – CON 37.2: LAB 38.4: LD 13.2 Tonight’s YouGov daily poll has more bad news for the Lib Dems – down to nine percent which equals their lowest share ever with the online polling firm. YouGov has been reporting significantly smaller LD shares than the other pollsters but the trend from all of them is the same – a declining share for the junior coalition partner. This has an impact on PAPA – the PB All Pollster’s…

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This clip is doing the rounds tonight – the Alan Johnson REd slip, courtesy of Tim Montgomerie. Watching it doesn’t appear to be a gaffe at all. Maybe that is what he calls his party leader in private. The big political point is that the shadow chancellor seems to have a different view of the way forward than his leader. Mike Smithson

Or is Andy Coulson just going to shake it all off..again? According to Paul Waugh there’s no truth in the strong suggestion by Tom Watson MP that the former NOTW editor and now Number 10 press chief, Andy Coulson, could be out by Christmas. Watson is certainly cranking this one up but I can’t see how anything short of Coulson being charged and going on trial will spark a resignation. Whatever there is a danger that Cameron’s decision to stick…

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Should the electoral calendar have been taken into account? So now we have the day for the royal wedding – and the plan is to stage it on Friday April 29 just before the May bank holiday so many people will gain the benefit of a long weekend. But what’s it going to do campaigning for the elections due to take place on May 5th? That day sees voting right across the UK with the av referendum, the four yearly…

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Antifrank on Labour/the polls/Nick Clegg Since the Lib Dems threw in their lot with the Conservatives in the aftermath of the general election, Nick Clegg has come in for a lot of flak on the more left wing blogs and newspaper sites. It is often asserted that Nick Clegg is despised as a hate figure, perhaps even a figure of fun. Is that true? Well, we have had two recent polls where the public were asked to judge his performance,…

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