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ComRes: “37 percent say Blair should face war crime charges”

ComRes: “37 percent say Blair should face war crime charges”

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…and 60% say Brown should share responsibility More information has just been published from the weekend ComRes poll and it doesn’t make comfortable reading for either Blair and his successor. A majority believes that Gordon Brown should share the blame while almost almost four in 10 people believe that Blair should face a war crimes trial over the 2003 invasion. The findings are a setback for Brown, who will give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the war in the…

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What do we think of this?

What do we think of this?

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Ipsos-Mori This has just come out from Ipsos-MORI – a polling question that I quite like and have featured before. The last time this was put was in July 2008 which was just about the biggest low for Brown when all the talk was of Miliband (D) launching a coup to oust him. The poll took place just after Labour lost Glasgow East. You can play about with the numbers as you wish – and no doubt people will draw…

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Time to be betting on Brown 2011?

Time to be betting on Brown 2011?

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Will he really stay on if Labour loses? The big story in the Sunday Times has serious implications for several betting markets if its turns out to be correct. The report opens: “Gordon Brown is making secret plans to stay on as Labour leader after the general election even if his party is defeated. The prime minister has told close colleagues that he will refuse to quit unless the Conservatives win a significant majority. “Gordon has said he believes his…

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Why’s this been pulled from the SkyNews paper review?

Why’s this been pulled from the SkyNews paper review?

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Mail on Sunday Is Number 10 trying to contain the Rawnsley damage? Late last night the above front page figured prominently in the SkyNews review of the papers which is available online. A couple of hours later. as reported on the last thread, PBers linking to Sky found that the Mail on Sunday’s story had been taken down – see here. Fortunately I had done a screen grab of the SkyNews paper review at 10.34 pm before that happened and…

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What’s Blair’s appearance going to do to the election?

What’s Blair’s appearance going to do to the election?

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SkyNews Could this be a dangerous day for Mr. Brown? Getting on for seven years after he took that momentous decision Tony Blair will be quizzed in public for six hours today about what has become the defining policy of his administration – the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. We’ve had a taster already, from Alastair Campbell earlier in the month, of the approach the ex-PM is likely to take and we’ll be exposed again to that hugely capable…

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Is Ainsworth really privy to the election date thinking?

Is Ainsworth really privy to the election date thinking?

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Hasn’t this become like October 2007? In all the speculation over May 6th really being the day let’s not forgot the total Horlicks that Labour/Brown made over the election that never was in October/November 2007. Then, according to the party’s general secretary at the time, Peter Watts, getting on for £1.2m of Labour precious resources had already been spent. A million and a half mail packs had been printed and stuffed and were ready to be sent to key voters…

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Does the Chilcott move take away Brown’s options?

Does the Chilcott move take away Brown’s options?

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Has it now got to be May 6th? I was very much taken by this post from antifrank:- “The Chilcott Inquiry is proving to be bigger than I thought it was going to be. I think Gordon Brown was very ill-advised to ask to be quizzed before the general election; pretty much whatever he says will dominate the news that week, and I cannot conceive how it could ever be good for Labour. That’s another week taken out of any…

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Do these 1992 approval ratings hold the key?

Do these 1992 approval ratings hold the key?

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Should we be waiting for the MORI January numbers? So in the past week we have had two telephone polls, Populus and ComRes, showing sharpish moves to the Tories while the two online polls have either reported no change (Angus Reid) or Labour moving up a notch and the Tories moving down (YouGov). Given that one, last night’s YouGov had the gap close to, as they say, “hung parliament territory” what is going on and could the election, after all,…

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