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Has Cameron found the election dividing line – honesty?

Has Cameron found the election dividing line – honesty?

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Indy online Is this going to be the core Tory theme? Usually one of the most consistent Saturday morning political “reads” is Andrew Grice’s column in the Independent and today he speculates on what he think what the Tories are planning to make the election all about. He suggests that Tory riposte to Brown’s “investment versus cuts” will be “to invite voters to choose between “Honest Dave and Dodgy Gordon”. Grice goes on: “When Andrew Lansley, the shadow Health Secretary,…

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Can he make it to the parliamentary recess?

Can he make it to the parliamentary recess?

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Will the “dignified exit” then come in September? Ever since his survival after the June 4th elections disaster there’s been talk that a deal was done with Mandelson during those critical few days for Brown to be allowed to stay so he could have a “dignified exit” at a less frenetic time. This, I believe, is the sub-text of much of what is going on at the moment with Simon Carr putting it clearly in the Indy this morning. “And…

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Could Bercow be a future PM?

Could Bercow be a future PM?

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What do we think of Paul Linford’s speculation? Labour inclined blogger, Paul Linford has an interesting post under the heading “Could it be Prime Minister Bercow one day?”. His article looks at some of the historical precedent and then concludes: “..Bercow has said he will do nine years in the Chair, effectively two full Parliaments plus the toe-end of this one. That will make him 55 when he stands down – younger than Gordon Brown was when he became Prime…

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Who’s winning the Dave-Gord numbers war?

Who’s winning the Dave-Gord numbers war?

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BBC Online Will voters get bored by the details? Yet again today’s PMQ was dominated by the Tory leader trying to get the PM to admit that his answers a week ago and other public statements on cuts were not accurate. He was, in fact, being called a liar. The Tory strategy seems to be two-fold – to portray Brown as untrustworthy through his use of “dodgy” numbers and to get over that Labour is having to make cuts as…

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Is this pointing to another Brown come-back?

Is this pointing to another Brown come-back?

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Populus CON 36 (-5) LAB 24(+3) LD 19 (+4) Blow for Cameron in new Populus poll The latest Populus poll in the Times looks like a serious blow for the Tories following nine terrible days for Labour. The voting intention figures above are bad enough but one of the other findings could be very worrying. As the paper puts it “..faced by a straight choice, 44 per cent would still prefer a Labour government and 42 per cent a Conservative…

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Will Gord’s leadership last longer than IDS’s?

Will Gord’s leadership last longer than IDS’s?

Can he beat the Tory’s two years and 55 days? With all the talk of the pressure on Gordon Brown just how long can he carry on? Is for instance his tenure as leader of the Labour party going to be shorter than Iain Duncan Smith – the Tory leader from 2001 to 2003. Unlike Brown IDS had to fight an election to get the party’s top job yet within a short time it was clear that the party had…

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Could Dave’s plan guarantee Labour’s future?

Could Dave’s plan guarantee Labour’s future?

Will Primaries be how the big parties strike back? In and amongst the big political stories of the week one potentially very significant event has received scant attention. This was the speech given by David Cameron at the Open University which set-out a series of ideas and policies that would bring about one of the biggest changes to political life this country has seen for decades.   The scope of the proposed changes is vast: they run across the whole…

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Is the Tory clear-out Dave’s “Clause 4”?

Is the Tory clear-out Dave’s “Clause 4”?

Will the focus on his miscreants be good for the party? Over the past few days there’s been a lot of concern in Conservative circles over the way the media has put the focus on problems of Tory MPs in the expenses saga with scant attention, apparently, being given to the problems of Brown and his ministers. We’ve seen it in abundance on the site. It’s all media bias, the “Beeb having it in for us” or that the Telegraph…

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