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Is Sheerman now the “leader” of Labour’s internal opposition?

Is Sheerman now the “leader” of Labour’s internal opposition?

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What if he gets elected as the PLP chairman? After a day at Westminster dominated by the clashes involving Ed Balls over his appointment of the children’s commissioner a lot of attention is being focussed on the veteran MP, Barry Sheerman. At the weekend it was reported that he’s thinking of being a stalking horse in next month’s election for the chairmanship of the parliamentary Labour party so MPs can have a mean of showing their feelings about the leadership….

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How vulnerable is Labour to this sort of attack?

How vulnerable is Labour to this sort of attack?

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1929 Conservative poster – Wikimedia Commons Could this still have potency – 80 years on? While idly surfing the net over the weekend I came across this wonderful poster from the 1929 general election which seemed to resonate with the current political mood. For Labour seems most vulnerable when the Daily Mail, and it is usually the Daily Mail, finds some new law or regulation that could have consequences way beyond the wrong that it was trying to deal with….

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Does this make it easier for Mandy to succeed Gord?

Does this make it easier for Mandy to succeed Gord?

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Guardian Could he move to Number 10 AND keep his peerage? For months now it has been blindingly obvious to me, at least, that the Labour party would fare better if the business secretary with a whole string of other titles, Lord Mandelson, became Brown’s successor. He’s light years ahead of the internal competition in terms of his sheer political abilities and communication skills that with him in charge then his party would do better whatever side of the general…

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Is Labour going to close the gap?

Is Labour going to close the gap?

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PaddyPower What’ll be their best polling position next month? The innovative Irish bookmaker, PaddyPower , has just introduced a new market on what’s going to happen to the opinion polls in November. A range of prices, see above, has been drawn up linked to the best Labour position in voting intention surveys from Populus, YouGov, ComRes, Ipsos-Mori and ICM during November 2009. This applies to the final date of fieldwork and will be settled according to the UKPollingReport list. I…

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Two betting markets that are coming to fruition

Two betting markets that are coming to fruition

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Will Brown’s ratings go up or down? The Irish bookmaker, PaddyPower is now offering a monthly market on which way Brown’s YouGov approvals ratings are going to move. This is based on the monthly Sunday Times YouGov survey, the next one of which should come this weekend. Previous results can be seen here and looking at what’s happened in the past four months I think that PaddyPower price of 5/4 on it being in the 20-30% range looks great value….

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Is it bad news for McNulty punters?

Is it bad news for McNulty punters?

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Legg rules that he doesn’t have to pay anything back? At the end of March several PBers, including me, risked their cash on the William Hill market that the former minister, Tony McNulty, would be forced to pay money back following reports that he’d claimed £60,000 of taxpayers’ money for the mortgage on a house he owns in his Harrow constituency where his parent live. As was reported this was close to his constituency office and just 11 miles from…

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On the morning Jacqui Smith got good news on her expenses…

On the morning Jacqui Smith got good news on her expenses…

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SkyNews Could this affair explode again? It’s been a bit of an up and downer for former Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, this morning. With minutes of the report on last December’s arrest of Damien Green there’s news that no further action will be taken against her on her expenses. The investigation into the Green arrest has concluded that the documents that were being handed over to Green “did not contain information which threatened to undermine national security or Government effectiveness”…

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Cameron returns to Bedford as a new favourite emerges

Cameron returns to Bedford as a new favourite emerges

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Bedfordshire on Sunday Are punters reading this one right? With the Tories keen to keep up the Manchester momentum David Cameron is heading back to Bedford tomorrow where what will almost certainly be the biggest electoral test anywhere before the general election takes place on Thursday. At the stake is a by-election for one of the “US-style” mayor posts. There’s an electorate of 117,000 and there’s been a whole stream of leading politicians heading there in the past week. The…

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