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ICM poll: Tories would be worse off if either BoJo or Moggsy succeeds TMay

ICM poll: Tories would be worse off if either BoJo or Moggsy succeeds TMay

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Tories better off with May than any other leader, poll suggests | Politics | The Guardian https://t.co/gf5TKz7zs9 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 22, 2018 And the Washington Post describes TMay as “A Great PM” Those of us who were around following the polls in 2007 remember how the succession of Gordon Brown as Labour leader was going to undermine the red team. Poll after poll found LAB’s position deteriorating when Brown name was mentioned and I certainly took that on…

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The end of an era. Sir Paul Dacre is said to have edited his last Daily Mail

The end of an era. Sir Paul Dacre is said to have edited his last Daily Mail

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We can expect fewer powerful pro-Brexit front pages like these? The biggest political development over the weekend, I’d suggest, was the report in the Observer about the replacement of Paul Dacre as Daily Mail editor with the Geordie Gregg, of the Mail on Sunday, who has taken a totally different view of the referendum outcome. Gregg will start in September a couple of months earlier than planned and it is hard to see, given his views, him carrying on with…

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This poll just about sums Brexit up – 60% don’t care what happens over Brexit they just want it to be over

This poll just about sums Brexit up – 60% don’t care what happens over Brexit they just want it to be over

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As the issue rolls on and on, do you just want #Brexit to be finished? From yesterday's @BBCWestminHour with @EllieJPrice, six out of ten agreed that they no longer care how or when we leave – they just want it over and done with. That rises to three quarters of leavers. pic.twitter.com/JJGUcbfdN7 — Joe Twyman (@JoeTwyman) August 6, 2018 This is good news for TMay I’m starting to like some of the original output from DeltaPoll – the new pollster…

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The prospect of Johnson as leader should make Theresa’s position a bit more secure

The prospect of Johnson as leader should make Theresa’s position a bit more secure

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How many are going to no confidence her if he’s alternative? Much has been written about the incredible resilience of Theresa May who has managed to hang on to her job now for well over a year after losing the party it’s majority in the June 2017 general election. She became a contender in the post referendum Conservative leadership race in July 2016 with her backers arguing that she was the one for the party to get behind in order…

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If the senior Tory quoted here is right TMay will be out this autumn

If the senior Tory quoted here is right TMay will be out this autumn

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A senior Tory MP tells me chances of May being ousted this autumn are “100%” such is the rage at her handling of Brexit. Is she tonight pleading with Macron to give her something — anything — otherwise he will be dealing with Johnson or Gove? https://t.co/4o6beG4Id4 — Robert Harris (@Robert___Harris) August 3, 2018 On Betfair it’s a 38% chance that she’ll be out this year I’ll believe it when I see it. Tory MPs, surely, will only back a…

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TMay has taken a hammering in YouGov’s “best PM” tracker but Corbyn has dropped by nearly as much

TMay has taken a hammering in YouGov’s “best PM” tracker but Corbyn has dropped by nearly as much

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The Tory Brexit split and LAB antisemitism one are taking their toll Above is a YouGov table showing all the published “Best PM” ratings since the start of the year. As can be seen both main party leaders have taken a tumble and the gap between them is almost what it was. The timing is interesting. The TMay drop has happened in the post-Chequers environment and was largely in July. Corbyn’s decline has more gradual. The big message from where…

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YouGov finds TMay rated about the same as Major, ahead of Blair and Brown but behind Cameron

YouGov finds TMay rated about the same as Major, ahead of Blair and Brown but behind Cameron

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Above is from some new polling just issued by YouGov in which those surveyed were asked to rate TMay against the three preceding PMs. The Blair figures shows, I’d suggest, the continuing legacy of the Iraq war. It is perhaps worth noting that he is the only one being compared who led his party to sustainable Commons majorities. In electoral terms he is also the most successful leader in his party’s history and there are no matches in modern time…

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Amazingly TMay makes it to the long summer recess and she’s still there

Amazingly TMay makes it to the long summer recess and she’s still there

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Betdata.io The confidence motion threat was all piss and wind from the Brexiteers Today has been a very important milestone because Parliament has risen for the summer recess and Mrs May is still Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. Giving the a long time table of a Conservative leadership election it is hard to see how Mrs May can be ousted and for a successor to be in place in 2018. The chances are now that her exit…

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