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Meet the new boss – what TMay’s first 60 days tell us about how she’ll govern

Meet the new boss – what TMay’s first 60 days tell us about how she’ll govern

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Theresa May has now been Prime Minister for 60 days.  It’s never too soon to start forming judgements.  So what have we learned so far about our new Prime Minister?  Actually, rather a lot says Alastair Meeks. Her new slogan is her manifesto Theresa May’s conversion to grammar schools has attracted a lot of attention.  Her speech is worth reading because it sets out her philosophy. She delivered it in front of the slogan: “A country that works for everyone”…

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The Grammar School policy is un-Conservative and will appeal to the wrong people

The Grammar School policy is un-Conservative and will appeal to the wrong people

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The thinking is muddled because the priorities are muddled Theresa May is a grammar school girl.* That personal experience, combined with the success of her career, might well be at the root of her enthusiasm for the system which she so lauded yesterday; many who believe they benefitted personally from a system become advocates for its wider adoption. If so, her enthusiasm is misplaced. Coming into office on a pledge of social mobility, it’s perhaps not too surprising that she’s…

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Vox Populi, Vox Dei, the polling that explains why Mrs May is backing creating more grammar schools

Vox Populi, Vox Dei, the polling that explains why Mrs May is backing creating more grammar schools

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Last month YouGov conducted some polling on grammar schools, some of the polling explains why Mrs May has so publicly endorsed the expansion of grammar schools today, it would be appear people view them as good for social mobility. and they would like their children to go to grammar schools. However the polling also found more people in favour of scrapping existing current grammar schools/or not creating any more grammar schools. This is probably based on the studies that show…

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Today we should have been getting the new Prime Minister

Today we should have been getting the new Prime Minister

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The picture above sums up the last few months in British politics, the reaction live on television of Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor of The Times, to Boris Johnson withdrawing from the Tory leadership race. Theresa May’s lack of a mandate could cause her problems. If events had gone to schedule, the result of the Tory leadership contest would have been announced today, Andrea Leadsom’s disastrous ‘mother superior’ interview helped put the kibosh on those plans. But in hindsight Theresa May…

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From Labour’s conference problems Mrs May might infer Labour couldn’t cope with a snap general election

From Labour’s conference problems Mrs May might infer Labour couldn’t cope with a snap general election

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What a palaver Labour finds itself in https://t.co/59BsukOrKZ pic.twitter.com/XQBGfF1y5G — TSE (@TSEofPB) August 26, 2016 If Labour cannot properly organise a conference with a year’s notice, surely they couldn’t cope with a snap general election? In the past 24 hours, Labour’s annual conference has been thrown into doubt, as Labour were snubbed by G4S, the firm Labour had been boycotting until recently. Conor Pope of Labourlist writes Concerns are mounting over whether Labour conference – due to open in less…

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Mrs. May’s new PM ratings honeymoon is bigger than Thatcher’s, Cameron’s or Brown’s, but smaller than Major or Blair

Mrs. May’s new PM ratings honeymoon is bigger than Thatcher’s, Cameron’s or Brown’s, but smaller than Major or Blair

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Putting the current ratings numbers into a historical context With a lot of the non-LAB leadership politics discussion being on May’s polling honeymoon I thought I’d look back at the old MORI ratings to see how other new PM’s were doing at this stage in their occupancy of Number 10. To its great credit Ipsos MORI keeps excellent historical records and has a whole section devoted to old polling data. So compiling the above has been easy. Interestingly Mrs. Thatcher…

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The reason Theresa May is rating so well, even amongst LAB voters, is that she exudes competence

The reason Theresa May is rating so well, even amongst LAB voters, is that she exudes competence

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Her current LAB alternative does not Yesterday’s shock leader satisfaction ratings from Ipsos MORI that had May with net a positive from LAB voters while Corbyn was given a net negative by the same segment was totally unprecedented. Generally people respond to leader ratings on party basis. The numbers come on top of a series of leader ratings which have been very good for the new PM and very bad for Corbyn who is battling to hang on to his…

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At the end of April YouGov had Corbyn beating Theresa May by 7% on its “best PM” ratings?

At the end of April YouGov had Corbyn beating Theresa May by 7% on its “best PM” ratings?

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How Britain’s politics have totally changed Back at the end of April when the Tories were totally split on the referendum YouGov tested how Corbyn did in its “best PM” polling against Cameron and a number of possible other contenders for the Tory leadership. The LAB leader trailed the then PM by just 7% and was only 5% behind Boris. Perhaps not remarkably he had a 13% lead over Osborne and what’s interesting now is in the chart – Corbyn…

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