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LAB supporters are deluding themselves if they think an anti-CON rainbow coalition would automatically back Corbyn for PM

LAB supporters are deluding themselves if they think an anti-CON rainbow coalition would automatically back Corbyn for PM

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Corbyn’s poor leader ratings highlight the weakness Ever since general election seat projections like the one from Sky above have appeared LAB supporters and Corbyn enthusiasts have been saying that last Thursday the party won LE2018 and if it had been had a general election then Corbyn would be the one being called to the Palace. This is based on the unfounded and somewhat arrogant assumption by LAB that all the SNP, LD, PC and GRN MPs would simply line…

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Has Labour lost its momentum?

Has Labour lost its momentum?

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Are we past Peak Corbyn or was LE2018 just a bump in the road? You can tell a lot about how well a party has done by where a leader goes to celebrate their election victories. Theresa May (no doubt unwittingly) re-emphasised her caution-first nature by travelling all the way to Wandsworth: a council the Tories have held since 1978. She could have gone to Nuneaton, where the Tories stripped Labour of a sizable majority (unlike Wandsworth, where it was…

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Polling analysis: Corbyn is a liability to Labour while TMay has returned to being an asset to the Tories

Polling analysis: Corbyn is a liability to Labour while TMay has returned to being an asset to the Tories

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The YouGov favourability trackers are just about the only polling where we can compare leaders with their parties on the same basis. The same question is asked in exactly the same form to the same sample whether people have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of CON/LAB/TMay/Corbyn. It is also a tracker which is asked in the same form at regular intervals which means there are enough data points to examine trends. The movement in the leader and party ratings since…

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Fewer than 3 in 5 of GE2017 LAB voters prefer Corbyn as “next PM”. Maybe the magic of last June is evaporating

Fewer than 3 in 5 of GE2017 LAB voters prefer Corbyn as “next PM”. Maybe the magic of last June is evaporating

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YouGov VI: CON: 43% (+3) LAB: 38% (-2) LD: 8% (-1) There is a new YouGov poll for the Times which has the Tories moving to a 5% lead compared with the level pegging that they had a week ago. The fieldwork took place at the start of the week and before the Windrush issue really caught hold as a big media story. A finding that should concern LAB is that of those who voted for the party on June…

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LAB might now be back level pegging in voting polls but Corbyn’s leader ratings should be a cause for concern

LAB might now be back level pegging in voting polls but Corbyn’s leader ratings should be a cause for concern

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His handling of the antisemitism issue might be driving this The above the data comes from Opinium the only pollster which does at least a monthly survey of leader approval ratings which means that we have sufficient data points to identify trend. The last numbers were from fieldwork last week before Tuesdays antisemitism debate in the Commons which got a lot of very negative coverage ad helped to deflect a little from Mrs. May’s Windrush problem. What is striking is…

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If TMay and Corbyn are still there at the next election then Windrush & antisemitism could still be dogging them

If TMay and Corbyn are still there at the next election then Windrush & antisemitism could still be dogging them

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These are leadership more than party issues What a dramatic few days for both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition. Two huge issues continue to dominate the news which are big negatives for each of them respectively. The Windrush affair, which is being juxtaposed with the meeting of Commonwealth leaders, is a reminder of how Theresa May handled things when she was in the Home Office from 2010 to 2016. It was under her watch that the…

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Corbyn accused of being a coward for leaving the chamber at the start of the antisemitism debate

Corbyn accused of being a coward for leaving the chamber at the start of the antisemitism debate

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https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/986288625238372352?s=20 https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/986290404919300099?s=20 Ever seen him call out a racist on his own side?Of course you haven’t, he’s always been a coward with a thin skin. — ForgottenGenius (@ExStrategist) April 17, 2018 From the beginning of all this I think he’s been more guilty of cowardice than anything else. He won’t confront; instead he retreats to his adoring base, again and again. — Benji Lanyado (@benjilanyado) April 17, 2018 https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/986294293458571265?s=20

MEMO to Mr Corbyn: Most GE2017 LAB voters think the Russian Government is a force for evil in the world

MEMO to Mr Corbyn: Most GE2017 LAB voters think the Russian Government is a force for evil in the world

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Like Brexit another area where Team Corbyn appears out of line with GE17 LAB voters? We have seen since the general election that there is an increasing divide between the views of team Corbyn and those who voted for the party at the last general election on Brexit. Overwhelmingly LAB GE2017 voters believe that the decision to leave the EU was wrong which appears out of line with the policies being pursued by the opposition front bench under Mr Corbyn….

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