New YouGov polling for the New Statesman shows the huge gap between Corbyn supporters and the voters LAB needs to attract

New YouGov polling for the New Statesman shows the huge gap between Corbyn supporters and the voters LAB needs to attract

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YouGov polling for New Statesman showing gap between views of Corbyn supporters & potential LAB voters pic.twitter.com/XMed4MZeS2 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 23, 2015 Peter Kellner has an analysis in tomorrow’s New Statesman which includes the polling featured above on the attitude on a range of matters by Corbyn supporters, current firm and weak LAB voters, and the target groups that the party needs to bring on board at a general election. Question by question the gap is massive. Those…

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Farron’s speech was pretty well received but what a mountain his party has to climb

Farron’s speech was pretty well received but what a mountain his party has to climb

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Reaction from leading commentators on final morning of LD conference I think that's as good as speech as I've ever heard from a Lib Dem leader. Passionate, personal and grown up where it needed to be. — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) September 23, 2015 Be honest, sensible Labour twitter people: how many of you are now daydreaming of Tim Farron as Labour leader? — James Kirkup (@jameskirkup) September 23, 2015 Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron calls on the Government to opt…

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Damian McBride wonders why there’s been no official denial of the pig story from Team Dave

Damian McBride wonders why there’s been no official denial of the pig story from Team Dave

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Ex-Brown spin doctor says Cameron's team made pig story worse by not issuing official denial http://t.co/TYiQixf8yt pic.twitter.com/EgS15hYuqf — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 23, 2015 There’s a fascinating critique in the Guardian this morning by Damian McBride on the way the Cameron team has dealt with the allegations being made by Lord Ashcroft, particularly the one about the pig. He argues strongly that they should have been a total an absolute denial of the story right at the very start and…

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Day 3 in the Mail from Lord A looks a bit tamer

Day 3 in the Mail from Lord A looks a bit tamer

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@LordAshcroft in the Mail – Day 3 pic.twitter.com/Y3MPI5kcek — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 22, 2015 Wednesday's Daily Mirror front page - Cam: I've been stabbed in back by a little xxxxx #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/id5vrtn3Us — Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 22, 2015

Volkswagen – the Lance Armstrong of the global auto-mobile industry

Volkswagen – the Lance Armstrong of the global auto-mobile industry

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BBC News The scale of the VW scandal is quite breathtaking Although at the moment this is not directly a political story there are likely to be huge political implications. These will be on top of the financial disturbance to the markets that has started to happen. The dramatic drop in the VW share price already is going to filter through to many areas. One thing that comes to mind immediately is how come there are apparently much tighter clean…

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The Ashcroft revelations day 2

The Ashcroft revelations day 2

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pic.twitter.com/fL7iZ43wYb — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 22, 2015 Could this be damaging to Osborne’s succession chances? One aspect of this which has a betting implication is what the Ashcroft revelations will do to the next CON leader markets? Is recent months, particularly since the July budget, the sentiment has moved very strongly to the Chancellor, George Osborne. I wonder whether some of the backlash provoked by the tabloid frenzy could impact on him because, after all, Osborne was also a…

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Whatever the veracity of the story this could stick to “Call me Dave”

Whatever the veracity of the story this could stick to “Call me Dave”

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Let's move on from The Vow.. pic.twitter.com/j1J9AmmbkV — The Daily Record (@Daily_Record) September 21, 2015 I like the Daily Record’s reference to the famous Daily Record front page before the InyRef a year ago with the headline “The vow”. As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been driving back from the South of France and only this afternoon did I start to catch up with the story. Nobody really knows whether this is true or not or whether there…

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Fiorina now leading the Donald in New Hampshire – where the first full primary takes place

Fiorina now leading the Donald in New Hampshire – where the first full primary takes place

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Just arrived back home from my holiday in Southern France and am only now catching up with the news – so no piggy puns from me! While Britain has been focussed on the election of Mr Corbyn, and now the Ashcroft Cameron biography, the 2016 White House race has been seeing some dramatic developments Last week there was the second full TV debate of the Republican party Primary featuring the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina, who only just…

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