It’s no smile day at Number 11
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Two new polls have the Tories on 39 percent
Fieldwork Pollster/publication CON LAB LD 18-20 June ICM / The Guardian 39 31 21 18-20 June Ipsos MORI/Reuter 39 31 19 17-18 June YouGov / Sunday Times 39 34 19 16-17 June ComRes / Indy on Sunday 36 30 23 10-11 June YouGov / Sunday Times 40 32 18 10-11 June BPIX (YouGov) / Mail on Sunday 39 32 19 1-9 June Harris/Metro 36 30 25 28-31 May ComRes / The Independent 37 33 21 21-23 May ICM / The…
Will Labour really go for MiliD – the biggest vote loser?
Candidate Seat LAB ’05 LAB ’10 Diane Abbott Hackney N & Stoke Newington 49.0% 55.0% Ed Miliband Doncaster North 51.1% 47.3% Andy Burnham Leigh 57.8% 51.3% Ed Balls Morley & Outwood 46.0% 37.6% David Miliband South Shields 60.8% 52.0% Or will it go for the one big winner? Above are the differing performances in their own constituencies of the five Labour hopefuls are the general election on May 6th. This was a day, of course, when the overall GB share…
Labour drop three in new ComRes poll
Fieldwork Pollster/publication CON LAB LD OTH 16-17 June ComRes / Independent on Sunday 36 30 23 11 10-11 June YouGov / Sunday Times 40 32 18 10 1-9 June Harris/Metro 36 30 25 9 28-31 May ComRes / The Independent 37 33 21 9 21-23 May ICM / The Guardian 39 32 21 8 20-21 May YouGov / Sunday Times 39 32 21 7 13-14 May YouGov / Sunday Times 37 34 21 8 12-13 May ICMÂ / Sunday Telegraph 38…
Remember this from last December?
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Coalition cuts: now we are getting specific
BBC News How much is falling in marginal constituencies? The Treasury secretary, Danny Alexander, has this afternoon announced to MPs details of projects totalling £2bn that are being axed. On top of that there’s a list a projects which are being suspended. All were agreed to by Labour between the start of 2010 and the general election. Maybe this is just coincidence but what strikes me looking at the lists is how much seemed to be being spent in marginal…
Are you going to pay to read the Times?
Will Rupert’s big gamble work? This week has seen the start of the programme to get us all paying if we want to read the Times online. We haven’t seen the pricing yet and at the moment you can view stories from the paper for nothing using their preview service. Here you give them you email address and no doubt that will switch to a fully paying service in the not to distant future. If this succeeds then one thing’s…
Will this sorry chapter now be closed?
..or will it open calls for prosecutions? Like many people I thought that Cameron’s statement on the inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday to be dignified and could of itself help in terms of whether anything happens next. The aim was to bring closure and it will be interesting in the next few hours to see if that has been achieved. I was a sub-editor in the BBC Radio national newsroom on the day it happened in 1971 1972…