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And so to re-shuffle day unless the media’s being very badly misled

And so to re-shuffle day unless the media’s being very badly misled

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At least it’ll divert attention from the Toby Young Tweets I can’t remember a reshuffle that has been trailed as long this one. On Saturday David Herdson very rightly set out the reasons why Theresa May should not be holding a reshuffle so soon after the general election. There have been others, like former Cameron PR boss, Craig Oliver, saying that the worst thing that a PM can do is let everybody know that a reshuffle is happening. Far far…

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Why TMay should wait to reshuffle her cabinet

Why TMay should wait to reshuffle her cabinet

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There is a good reason why PMs do not reshuffle only 6 months after a GE One of the easier predictions I thought I’d made in a twitter string earlier this week was that Theresa May wouldn’t engage in a voluntary major reshuffle of her cabinet this year. Within two hours of me doing so, the political twittersphere was alive with speculation and supposedly informed comment that just such a reshuffle was imminent – talk that Number Ten did little…

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Michael Crick is right about appointments to the House of Lords

Michael Crick is right about appointments to the House of Lords

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All this speculation about who might or might not be on the imminent new peers list is silly. Appointments to our legislature – FOR LIFE – ought to be an open process, subject to proper public and media scrutiny — Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) January 5, 2018 If we are continuing with an appointed upper chamber then the process must be transparent With Mrs. May, who lost the CON majority last June, planning to bolster CON representation in the House of…

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YouGov’s latest Brexit tracker – the monthly average trend chart and latest party splits

YouGov’s latest Brexit tracker – the monthly average trend chart and latest party splits

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There really has been very little movement The final 2017 poll was for YouGov which included it’s regular Brexit tracker which PB has been reporting on ever since it was introduced shortly after the 2016 Brexit referendum. Some have criticised the phraseology of YouGov’s question with the suggestion that the term “in hindsight” is leading people to take the view the decision was wrong. Maybe – but that doesn’t shows up in the numbers with a very high proportion of…

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Re-shuffle speculation isn’t good for a Government and needs to be done as fast as possible

Re-shuffle speculation isn’t good for a Government and needs to be done as fast as possible

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Great for @ShippersUnbound to have such an informed reshuffle piece, but aides briefing on reshuffles causes mayhem – angry ministers start demanding private reassurances and counter-briefing begins. Soon someone asks: are sure we *really* want to do this? pic.twitter.com/E9f99pWHJ5 — Craig Oliver (@CraigOliver100) December 31, 2017 An opportunity, perhaps, for the next generation? One of the big pieces of political news over the holiday weekend was that Theresa May is said to be considering a reshuffle. This’ll be the first…

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Can we agree that “Peak Theresa” was the ComRes 25% lead in the S Mirror on April 23rd 2017?

Can we agree that “Peak Theresa” was the ComRes 25% lead in the S Mirror on April 23rd 2017?

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S Mirror ComRes poll field work April 19-20 CON 50 LAB 25 UKIP 7 LD 11 Over the past day or so may have been lots of eulogies, that’s the best way to describe it, to the extraordinary resilience and staying ower of Theresa May who seems to cope with one crisis after another and still remain at Number 10. Almost all of the articles seek to highlight the poll lead that she had after calling the general election in…

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What now for Damian Green?

What now for Damian Green?

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A sacked, anti-authoritarian Remainer with all the dirt on No10 on the backbenches. What could possibly go wrong? — Gerri Peev (@GerriPeev) December 20, 2017 Andrew Mitchell MP: “These two admitted breaches of the ministerial code are dwarfed by the extraordinary behaviour of the police which fortunately is now under investigation” — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) December 20, 2017 The morning after the night before and the big question surely is what is Damian Green going to do now? That it…

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Donald Trump’s re-tweets are going to cause Theresa May some problems

Donald Trump’s re-tweets are going to cause Theresa May some problems

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https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/935841585979449345 "Theresa May will be asked about this on her trip to the Middle East and repeatedly, until she gives some kind of answer, it's very difficult" @bbclaurak on Donald Trump retweeting Britain First videos "The British government will be under pressure to respond in some way" #bbcdp pic.twitter.com/JGnwUqj1Ko — BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) November 29, 2017 Chuka Umunna MP tells @skynews the State Visit invitation to Donald Trump should be withdrawn immediately:“He is normalising hatred.. if…

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