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The results from today’s elections could just be the trigger for a LAB leadership contest

The results from today’s elections could just be the trigger for a LAB leadership contest

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It might be that we'll soon a LAB leadership contest. These are the latest Betfair odds pic.twitter.com/slvGOqntJE — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 5, 2016 Currently my money’s on John McDonnell Every since his shock election last September the speculation has been that a danger period for Corbyn could come in the aftermath of today’s elections. The way that Sadiq Khan has distanced himself from his leader in recent weeks suggests that it is going to be harder for Team Corbyn…

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Three days to go and three big developments overnight

Three days to go and three big developments overnight

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New Holyrood poll suggests that the Tories could still overhaul LAB to come 2nd https://twitter.com/davieclegg/status/727253192493436930 Ex CON general election candidate quits party over Zac’s campaign Former CON GE candidate switches to LAB in protest at Zac Goldsmith’s “repulsive” campaign https://t.co/QBNEyXrRnE — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 2, 2016 And a plot to oust Corbyn Excl: Labour MPs believe they have persuaded Margaret Hodge to run as as stalking horse to oust Jeremy Corbyn; https://t.co/jLYxIueR1E — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 2,…

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Livingstone: symptom of a deeper problem

Livingstone: symptom of a deeper problem

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Confronting the ex-mayor means confronting what it means to be Labour You know you have a PR problem when your party’s second most successful politician this century* is publicly debating at what point in the 1930s Hitler lost the plot. Labour’s problem runs a great deal deeper than bad publicity though. To be clear, Labour is unlikely to be the only party with members, activists or elected representatives who’ve said or written something stupid or worse but it is likely…

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Why the Tories could be being complacent over Jeremy Corbyn

Why the Tories could be being complacent over Jeremy Corbyn

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Via @montie More bad polling comparisons for Osborne. Look how far he's behind Corbyn pic.twitter.com/eXP1DSSqyT — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 14, 2016 Alastair Meeks says predicting GE2020 is harder than the blues think Much comment has been passed this week on David Cameron’s falling ratings.  He now ranks behind Jeremy Corbyn on favourability ratings with YouGov.  “How low he has sunk” is the usual comment, and it is true. But as the table above shows, this is not a problem…

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Cameron, surely, is more vulnerable at the moment than Corbyn

Cameron, surely, is more vulnerable at the moment than Corbyn

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Betting on which leader will go first In the picture above are the latest William Hill odds on which of Cameron or Corbyn will stand down first. As can be seen the LAB leader is 4/6 to go first which I think is wrong. Firstly the rules of the Conservative party make it far easier for a challenge to be mounted and, indeed, recent history has seen both Mrs Thatcher and Iain Duncan Smith being voted out by the party’s…

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Assessing the mood amongst Labour pragmatists

Assessing the mood amongst Labour pragmatists

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Ex-MP Nick Palmer on a non-Corbynite Labour focus group For friendship and nostalgia, I had a dinner last week with 14 veteran campaigners who have mostly been with me in every campaign since 1997. Coincidentally or not, I think I was the only one at the table who had voted for Jeremy Corbyn. The others are pragmatic Labour campaigners who fight every election to win, and turned a safe Tory seat in 1992 (16% margin) into a perpetual marginal. They’d voted…

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Today should have been a day for Jeremy Corbyn to shine and embarrass Cameron and the Government. He failed

Today should have been a day for Jeremy Corbyn to shine and embarrass Cameron and the Government. He failed

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Today is a further example of why the Tories think they have 2020 election won. Corbyn simply isn’t up to the job of Leader of the Opposition. Did Corbyn really not mention IDS, or any of his attacks on Osborne? Did I miss that bit? Should have read out the Marr Show transcript — Jack Blanchard (@Jack_Blanchard_) March 21, 2016 Labour MP: “It takes a particularly special kind of genius to fuck up today. But Jeremy obliged” – Via @georgeeaton…

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