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LAB’s leadership weakness and another double digit Tory lead will increase the clamour for an early election

LAB’s leadership weakness and another double digit Tory lead will increase the clamour for an early election

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Tories move to 14% lead in Times/YouGov pollCON 42+2LAB 28=LD 8=UKIP 12-1 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 3, 2016 On this day in Ed Miliband leadership, Aug 3 2011, YouGov had LAB on 44% – 9 ahead of the Tories. — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 3, 2016 May doesn’t have the MPs to be sure of getting a BREXIT deal through We have now got to a stage where a national voting poll that doesn’t give the Tories a 10%+…

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Labour’s massive challenge: Support for Corbyn as “best PM” is inversely proportional to people’s likelihood to vote

Labour’s massive challenge: Support for Corbyn as “best PM” is inversely proportional to people’s likelihood to vote

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There’s a new YouGov voting poll out which has the Tories extending their lead to 12%. The figures are: CON 40% LAB 28% LD 8% UKIP 13% This means that the Tories have double digit leads in four of the five polls since Theresa May became PM. Clearly she is enjoying a honeymoon bounce but, on top of that, she is facing a Labour party that appears to be at war with itself. One part of the poll that show…

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Theresa May – the first national polling since she became PM

Theresa May – the first national polling since she became PM

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The first polling looks promising for TM ComRes online poll for Indy/S Mirror:More than half say that Theresa May is a strong leader (55%). Only 13% say the same for Jeremy Corbyn — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 16, 2016 By 36% to 32% those sampled by ComRes say Eagle would have better chance of winning general election for LAB than Corbyn — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 16, 2016 ComRes online poll  77% of those aged 65+ think that Theresa May…

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Theresa May’s lucky to have avoided the scrutiny that there’d have been with a prolonged membership ballot

Theresa May’s lucky to have avoided the scrutiny that there’d have been with a prolonged membership ballot

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The decision of Andrea Leadsom to pull out of the race last Monday is making May’s initial period a whole lot easier. Instead of the 8 weeks long slog of hustings meetings, probing interviews and TV debates the new PM has managed to avoid the searching questions on policy that would have made life considerably harder when entering Number 10. Just remember the commitment on the Tories in Brussels moving to a different grouping that Cameron made in the 2005…

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Theresa May’s new government, we’re nearly there

Theresa May’s new government, we’re nearly there

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Priti Patel is the latest to join Theresa May's new Cabinet #CabinetReshuffle https://t.co/rGGeixOKbo pic.twitter.com/qoWpgO8E3E — Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics) July 14, 2016 https://twitter.com/jameskirkup/status/753616343702835201 This is shaping up to be quite the egalitarian government, hardly any former public schoolboys and schoolgirls there. TSE

Theresa May’s new cabinet so far, the night and day of the long kitten heels?

Theresa May’s new cabinet so far, the night and day of the long kitten heels?

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The state of play so far in this ruthless #CabinetReshuffle. https://t.co/5QD7lFwhHA @Telegraph pic.twitter.com/foKCFIJhPJ — Michael Wilkinson (@ThatMichaelW) July 14, 2016 Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, Department for Energy & Climate Change, Department for Transport set to be shut down -reports — Michael Wilkinson (@ThatMichaelW) July 14, 2016 The new government by Mrs May is so far appearing to be very different from that it was before, which seems very appropriate on Bastille Day.  If you’ve been a follower of…

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Welcome to a new era in the Conservative party: The post-Bullingdon period

Welcome to a new era in the Conservative party: The post-Bullingdon period

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May’s cabinet should give us a pointer to the direction the party will go One of my favourite quotes from the former CON leader, William Hague, is that the Tories are “an absolute monarchy, moderated by regicide”. For there’s no doubt about the level of power and influence the leader has over policy, preferment, and the whole direction of the party. Unlike Labour there is no powerful NEC to get in the way. The leader is everything as we’ve seen…

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