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A Richmond Park by election polling boost for the LDs from Ipsos MORI: up 4% to 14%

A Richmond Park by election polling boost for the LDs from Ipsos MORI: up 4% to 14%

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From today’s Ipsos MORI phone poll for the Standard Con 40 (-2) Lab 29 (-4) LD 14 (+4) UKIP 9 (+2 GRN 3 (nc) Yellows getting biggest support in Southern England .@IpsosMORI regional splits LDsNorth 12%Midlands 11%South 18% London 13%Scotland 11%No separate figure for SW — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 15, 2016 TMay heading for cross-over perhaps in her satisfaction ratings TMay net @IpsosMORI satisfaction levels declining. How long before she's showing a negative? pic.twitter.com/aJutaW1cCj — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December…

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With five days to go a Corbyn boost for the Lib Dems in Richmond Park – he’s to visit the constituency on Sunday

With five days to go a Corbyn boost for the Lib Dems in Richmond Park – he’s to visit the constituency on Sunday

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At last a positive step from LAB to help the LDs in the Richmond Park by-election. Corbyn is visiting the constituency on Sunday — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 25, 2016 https://twitter.com/ChrisTwick/status/802213361358401537 Billionaire's son Zac Goldsmth whinging again about facing opposition in the by-election caused by HIS resignationhttps://t.co/eMFBpvVPJ3 pic.twitter.com/yFuULjBYoC — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 25, 2016

Why are the Lib Dems partying like it’s 1993?

Why are the Lib Dems partying like it’s 1993?

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They’re another party that has returned to comfort-zone politics They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. So Talleyrand said of the Bourbons and so much the same might be said of the Lib Dems today. If there’s one thing that we should take from the Witney by-election campaigns, it was the extent to which 2010-15 are now for the Lib Dems non-years. With the disagreeable business of actually holding power and being able to do something with it now behind…

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The big trend: CON and LAB are still failing to win voters from each other

The big trend: CON and LAB are still failing to win voters from each other

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The two big parties are left scrapping over the also rans One of the more remarkable features of the polling in the last parliament was the almost complete inability of both Labour and Conservatives to win voters from each other. Vote shares may have gone up and down but it was gains from and losses to the Lib Dems, UKIP, the Greens and SNP (and non-voters) that was responsible; the direct swing between the big two was negligible. As then,…

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A former odds-on favourite for the Democratic nomination says the LDs could form the next UK government

A former odds-on favourite for the Democratic nomination says the LDs could form the next UK government

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https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/status/780364710172585985 Back in late 2003, not too long after the Iraq War, the governor of Vermont, Howard Dean, was causing a stir on the WH2004 betting markets. He had become just about the first politician to tap into the power of the internet and was running a very effective online campaign building up hundreds of thousands of supporters. By early January 2004 ahead of the Iowa caucuses he looked unstoppable with the money and, apparently, campaign organisation see see him…

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Why the LDs won’t be too unhappy if Corbyn is re-elected

Why the LDs won’t be too unhappy if Corbyn is re-elected

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Continued splits in LAB could help a rejuvenation of the yellows The LDs are gathering in Brighton for their annual conference which, unlike the coalition years, is barely getting any attention. That’s understandable. Having just 8 MPs and the Tories having a majority means they are not important anymore. The polls suggest they haven’t progressed from the 8% of GE2015 but there’s one glimmer of hope – they are doing remarkably well at a local level. They made the most…

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The Lib Dems are coming off life-support: something else for Labour to worry about

The Lib Dems are coming off life-support: something else for Labour to worry about

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How closely are we going to re-run the 1980s? We’ve not heard much from the Lib Dems lately. The party which until last year supplied the Deputy Prime Minister, the Business Secretary and three other cabinet ministers, which before the election had more than fifty MPs and which had been treated by the media almost on an equal footing with the Conservatives and Labour simply disappeared from view. A year on and there are signs that a tentative recovery might…

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The Tories are very lucky the Lib Dems didn’t accept George Osborne’s coupon deal

The Tories are very lucky the Lib Dems didn’t accept George Osborne’s coupon deal

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Embed from Getty Images British politics today might have been very different if the Lib Dems had accepted Osborne’s deal The Mail on Sunday are serialising the memoirs of David Laws, the former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister, in it he reveals that The Tories secretly tried to form a 2015 Election pact with the Lib Dems to keep the Coalition going, according to David Laws. He says George Osborne proposed a so-called ‘coupon election’ deal with the Lib Dems, whereby…

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