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TMay moves to negative ratings in Scotland while fewer Scots now back independence than at the 2014 referendum

TMay moves to negative ratings in Scotland while fewer Scots now back independence than at the 2014 referendum

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Given the huge importance of Scotland as the UK moves towards BREXIT there’s a new Scotland only YouGov poll – the first since August. These are some of the key points:- New YouGov Scottish poll for Times finds support for independence down to 44% – lower than it was at the Sept 2014 referendum — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 30, 2016 TMay sees sharp YouGov ratings drop in Scotland. To the doing job well/badly question she's moved from net PLUS…

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Hammond moves up the betting as next CON leader/PM

Hammond moves up the betting as next CON leader/PM

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Latest next PM betting The new Chancellor gets a good press this morning following his first set piece appearance since getting the job in July. He’s someone who has been up there within the party a long time but has never sought to hog the limelight. After GE2010 he should have become number 2 to Osborne at the Treasury but the demands of the coalition meant that had to go to a Lib Dem. Since then he’s held senior cabinet…

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Extraordinary. Trump wants Farage to be Britain’s Ambassador to the United States

Extraordinary. Trump wants Farage to be Britain’s Ambassador to the United States

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What does Theresa May do about this? Perhaps the most extraordinary development of Trump’s victory in British terms is the Tweet, from the President-elect, giving his view on who he wants as Britain’s man in Washington. I can’t see this being looked at favourably at Number 10 but it does put the the PM in a quandary. It is vital for so many reasons that Britain has a good relationship with the new administration but having Farage there would be…

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Conservative David Herdson wonders whether Theresa May’s meritocracy is actually a mirage

Conservative David Herdson wonders whether Theresa May’s meritocracy is actually a mirage

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Why the nomination for Yorkshire’s Tory MEP will be a key test Prime ministers are inevitably remembered for their great achievements and their great failings: Attlee’s welfare state, Thatcher’s Falklands, Thatcher’s Poll Tax, Blair’s Iraq, and so on. Theresa May’s first ministry will be defined by the success or failure of Brexit. If it’s a failure, her first ministry will be her only one. But beneath the towering achievements and epic failures, governments leave a much broader legacy in the…

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Theresa May doesn’t have a Willie and it shows. She urgently and desperately needs a Willie in her government

Theresa May doesn’t have a Willie and it shows. She urgently and desperately needs a Willie in her government

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https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/787616816243871744 If she loses her Chancellor so early in her Premiership, people might infer Mrs May is wholly unsuited to be Prime Minister According to Margaret Thatcher one of the prerequisites of being a successful Prime Minister was “Every Prime Minister needs a Willie.” She was referring to William Whitelaw, her deputy, as she further expanded, “Willie is a big man in character as well as physically. He wanted the success of the Government which from the first he accepted would be…

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Brexit’s victory was miniscule and a swing of just 1.85% would’ve produced a different result

Brexit’s victory was miniscule and a swing of just 1.85% would’ve produced a different result

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Theresa May is wrong to assert that the referendum outcome was “clear” The chart above shows the winning margins in the four major referendums that there have been in the UK and illustrates just how small the LEAVE victory on June 23rd was compared with the other big UK rerefendums. Certainly the 1975 EC vote and the 2011 AV one gave very clear results which it is hard to argue with. Scotland’s IndyRef in September 2014 had a double digit…

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Chancellor Philip Hammond is said to believe that for the moment he is unsackable

Chancellor Philip Hammond is said to believe that for the moment he is unsackable

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Chancellor Phillip Hammond – said by @jameskirkup to be as emerging as the "Real leader of the opposition" – listening to his leader pic.twitter.com/KXeZwo3zN3 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 5, 2016 Meet the man now being described as the “real leader of the opposition” – There’s an insightful article on the challenges ahead facing the Tories by the Telegraph’s James Kirkup. Surveying the range of hurdles ahead Kirkup makes an interesting observation about Philip Hammond who replaced George Osborne as…

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