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All three main party leaders are in negative ratings territory with Corbyn’s numbers the worst

All three main party leaders are in negative ratings territory with Corbyn’s numbers the worst

Latest YouGov favourability trackers (FW Oct 23/24) If you had followed the 2017 General Election only through the prism of leader ratings then the actual outcome with the Labour recovery would have been less of a surprise. For these were showing that Theresa May’s numbers getting steadily worse and that Corbyn’s were improving very rapidly in the run up to election. Indeed by election day Corbyn had jumped out of negative territory. The ratings format I like the most and…

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The whole Corbyn GNU story is based on a false premise – that MP numbers are there for a no confidence vote to be passed

The whole Corbyn GNU story is based on a false premise – that MP numbers are there for a no confidence vote to be passed

The US President who took over after Kennedy was assassinated, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was famed for his sayings that wonderfully summed up political situations one of which was that the first rule of politics was that its “practitioners need to be able to count”. If only MPs and the media circus had thought about that last night when Corbyn made his ludicrous pitch to try to embarrass new LD leader Jo Swinson. For the main requirement for the circumstances envisaged…

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The BJohnson bounce and the LD recovery add to the pressure of the pressure on Corbyn

The BJohnson bounce and the LD recovery add to the pressure of the pressure on Corbyn

Latest @IpsosMORI with changes on GE2017CON 34% (-9.5)LAB 24% (-17)LDs 20% (+12.4)BREX 9% (+9) — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 1, 2019 Chart Evening Standard The Evening Standard in its reporting of the latest Ipsos-MORI poll leads on what is increasingly becoming a difficult narrative for the red team – their position in the post BJohnson voting polls and the very weak leader ratings their man has. The paper notes: The Ipsos MORI survey found 62 per cent of Britons now…

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