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How much worse can it get for Labour?

How much worse can it get for Labour?

BBC News Should Gordon apologise for the emails? In all likelihood, a year from today the election campaign will be underway, and a month after that this government may well have been ejected from office. Will the spring of 2009 be looked at as the time when the government’s demise finally became irrevocable and terminal? For all his grandstanding on the G20 stage, the poll bounce was modest, and Brown has subsequently been brought back down to earth by the…

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Guidogate: how much impact will it have?

Guidogate: how much impact will it have?

Sky News In the middle of a political storm, it’s not always easy to keep a grasp of perspective – and there’s no doubt that over the last two days, there’s been a veritable political storm. The question is to what extent this is a Westminster Village story and to what extent does it go beyond that? As yet, the direct damage is limited: one advisor to Gordon Brown has resigned and serious questions hang over the future of a blogger…

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Is this the way Gord can turn things round?

Is this the way Gord can turn things round?

The Sun But didn’t this approach fail in C&N? The Sun’s Whip column is carrying an interesting story suggesting that Labour is planning to revive it’s “Toff attacks” on the Tories in the run up to the election. According to the report the plan is to portray Cameron, Osborne and possibly others as from a different class than ordinary people who have no real idea about their concerns. The report goes on: The campaign will make huge posters of those…

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What’ll be like when we have fine detail on all of them?

What’ll be like when we have fine detail on all of them?

Click here to watch Was the Pickles roasting a foretaste of what’s to come? Like most recent polls this morning’s April survey by Populus for the Times picked up voter hostility towards MPs and their expenses – but it’s often hard from the numbers themselves to get a feel for the passion that this subject arouses. There’s real anger out there. In the same week that the Daniel Hannan YouTube speech was “going viral” there was, perhaps, an even more…

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Is this how Labour wins an historic 4th term?

Is this how Labour wins an historic 4th term?

What if Brown becomes “The Chancellor of the World” An idea has been buzzing round my head all night and the more I think about it the more it sounds like a plausible theory that could totally overturn current thinking about the general election. It might be recalled that in February Jackie Ashley in the Guardian floated an idea of Brown becoming a “a new global financial supremo” linked possibly to the IMF – a rumour that she said then…

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Gord gets only 3 point G20 boost

Gord gets only 3 point G20 boost

CON 41(nc) LAB 34(+3) LD 16(-1) But should Brown Central have been expecting much more? A new YouGov poll taken on Friday and today gives Labour a boost following the massive exposure for Gordon Brown during the G20 meeting. Fieldwork took place on the two days afterwards when most of the coverage was highly positive. The figures above show comparisons with the last survey from the firm just over a week ago. To put the change in context it will…

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G20 boost for Gord on PB’s “The Money Says” Index

G20 boost for Gord on PB’s “The Money Says” Index

The Labour Party Spread moves suggest a CON MAJORITY of 45: Down 11 seats There’s been a sharp move to Labour on the Sporting Index Commons seats spread market follow the G20 meeting. The latest figures with the SELL price first and the BUY price second are: CON 345 – 350: LAB 230 – 235: LD 43 – 46 seats. The bookmaker has also reduced the range of the spread from six seats to five which should offer a little…

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So what is the big story of London April 1-2 2009?

So what is the big story of London April 1-2 2009?

Has the Times got this one right? Here’s a selection of front pages after a dramatic news day in London. There are so many angles that it’s hard to pick up a coherent thread yet I wonder whether in historical significance the Times highlights the most important story – the Obama and Medvedev statement on nuclear stockpiles. In the UK, of course, everything is looked at in the context of something that has only happened once in the past thirty…

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