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Could Winchester be the Lib Dems’ Waterloo?

Could Winchester be the Lib Dems’ Waterloo?

Would Clegg’s approach to Labour be the campaign issue? The suggestions that Mark Oaten might quit his Winchester seat before the general election and create a by election creates big challenges for both Nick Clegg and David Cameron. For the newly-energised Tories, flushed with confidence following Crewe and Nantwich, would fancy their chances in a seat that was lost to the Lib Dems by just two votes at the 1997 general election. Then the result was contested in the courts,…

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What are your stories from Crewe and Nantwich?

What are your stories from Crewe and Nantwich?

Are Labour’s chances as bad as the media is suggesting? This weekend hundreds and maybe thousands of activists from the main parties will be heading to Crewe and Nantwich for a big couple of days of campaigning ahead of the critical by election a week on Thursday. The weather’s good, the constituency’s road and rail links are excellent and, most of all, Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems have each got something to prove in this key test of…

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Will May 1st resolve whether Toffs are electable?

Will May 1st resolve whether Toffs are electable?

Could the City Hall outcome be a marker for Downing Street? If London ITV is following its normal pattern then either today or tomorrow we should see a new opinion poll of voters in the capital on the London mayoralty. The organisation commissioned a YouGov survey at the end of every month since December and let us hope that it is following the normal pattern. I took last week’s news, which wasn’t as far as I know denied, that Downing…

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Will Cameron join the expenses bandwagon at PMQs?

Will Cameron join the expenses bandwagon at PMQs?

Did you get a bet on in the new PMQs market? With the two tabloids that are reckoned to have the most impact on public opinion, the Mail and the Sun, leading on the legal bid by the Speaker to stop MPs expenses being made public could David Cameron be considering this as his first line of attack at PMQs this lunchtime? The Tory leader has never been known to be shy when it comes to issues raised by the…

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What will Cameron go for tomorrow?

What will Cameron go for tomorrow?

Where’s the value in Ladbroke’s new market? Ladbrokes are sticking with the innovative new betting market on what Cameron’s first question will be at PMQs tomorrow. Reproduced above are the latest prices. My favourites are something to do with the London Mayoral election or a follow-up to Brown U-turn on the embryo bill free vote. Mike Smithson

Make money guessing what Dave’s first subject will be?

Make money guessing what Dave’s first subject will be?

Launching the new market – betting on Prime Minister’s Questions The bookmakers, Ladbrokes has launched what could develop into a fascinating weekly betting market – What will be the topic of David Cameron’s first question at PMQs? Normally the most watched and most speculated about moment in the commons each week happens just after midday on Wednesdays when the opposition leader gets to his feet and starts the first of the six questions he is allowed to put to the…

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Should Gord be using his “big clunking fist”?

Should Gord be using his “big clunking fist”?

Interesting article in the Guardian by the commentator who used to be one of his most enthusiastic supporters, Jackie Ashley. She believe that Brown is being too timid when it comes to picking fights and concludes: “…unless the prime minister has the courage to pick fights with powerful interests, then it really is all over. Labour’s assessment of the Tories as lightweight and meaningless is quite wrong. Cameron has won his advantage by taking some brave decisions, not by staying…

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Is Cameron trying to do an Obama?

Is Cameron trying to do an Obama?

What do we think of their new £500k campaign? In almost all the national papers this morning there are large ads from the Conservatives which are aimed, it seems. at building up a supporter base rather than winning votes. There’s a different theme in every newspaper but the objective appears to be the same – “Join us at Conservatives.com”. The message in the Times is about economic competence, green issues get singled out for special attention in the Independent while…

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