YouGov – the Sun Apr 29 Apr 28 CONSERVATIVES 34% 34% LIB DEMS 28% 31% LABOUR 27% 27% So it’s the Yellows that take the hit!! Well here it is – the first full voting intention survey after Mr. Brown/Mrs Duffy and Labour and the Tories are unchanged while Nick Clegg’s party goes down three. Labour will be relieved though all the next polling will be after the debate. Tonight’s debate on PB. New threads have been timed to be…
More from Marf can been seen here. Site traffic hits new record. Yesterday the number of page downloads exceeded a third of a million – the highest ever in a 24 hour period. Thanks to some nifty work by my son, Robert, another server was brought into use and we just about coped. My guess is that today could see a new record. Mike Smithson
At least he’s making the headlines! This morning’s front pages were always going to be bloody for the PM and these won’t disappoint. Even the ultra-loyal Daily Mirror had a problem with this story. Maybe Brown is lucky that today is final debate day because at the least the media will have to move on. Tomorrow will all be about the this closing session which will frame the coverage for the final few days. Just reflecting on what happened the…
But its CON up- LD down in YESTERDAY’s CR roly-poly poll YouGov/The Sun Apr 28 Apr 27 CONSERVATIVES 34% 33% LIB DEMS 31% 28% LABOUR 27% 29% Harris – Metro Apr 28 Apr 23 CONSERVATIVES 32% 34% LIB DEMS 30% 29% LABOUR 25% 26% ComRes/ITV-The Independent Apr 27 Apr 26 CONSERVATIVES 36% 32% LIB DEMS 26% 29% LABOUR 29% 29% So three new national voting intention polls showing sharply contrasting pictures of Lib Dem support where the differences might be…
BBC New Channel What’ll it do to his plans to stay on? In recent weeks Mr Brown has made a number of comments suggesting that he might want to stay on as Labour’s leader even if his party loses power May 6th. He’s shown in the past that he’s a formidable force to deal and without this afternoon’s events in Rochdale he might just have stood a chance of remaining. But this, surely, changes everything for it highlights he overwhelming…
Click to play This is Brown being interviewed down the line for Radio 2 shortly after the incident. What’s striking here is the manner of his response – his apology was not really an apology at all. I just wonder whether this is making matters worse. The problem, of course, is that this just reinforces the perceptions people have about him – from the way he spoke to his aide in the car to his comments about the broadcasters. Meanwhile,…