Easter Monday afternoon polling round-up

Easter Monday afternoon polling round-up

Latest YouGov Scotland poll. Independence Q: Yes 46% No 48% DK/WNV 6% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 6, 2015 Last 2 YouGov Scottish independence polls have have had NO in lead. 8 weeks ago YES led by 5% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 6, 2015 Pre-debate YouGov Scotland poll just publishedSNP 46% (nc) Lab 29% (+2) Con 16% (-2) LD 3% (-1) — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 6, 2015 At GE10 YouGov didn't have a poll on Easter Monday –…

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Just over a week to go before voting starts

Just over a week to go before voting starts

For about a fifth of voters the campaign is nearly over You might have thought that there’s more than a month to go in this election but early next week the first postal voting packs will be going out and people will start voting in GE2015. The actual day that the postals will be dispatched varies from one council area to another. Generally those where the general election is the only one which is taking place on May 7th will…

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Vince Cable the next Lib Dem leader?

Vince Cable the next Lib Dem leader?

Video of Vince Cable’s most memorable moment from when he was the acting Lib Dem Leader in 2007 Today’s Sunday Times reports VINCE CABLE, the business secretary, is being tipped by senior Liberal Democrats as the party’s next leader if Nick Clegg loses his seat or resigns after a poor result in the general election. Cable, 71, who had all but ruled himself out of any leadership contest, is now being promoted by senior Lib Dems as a “safe pair…

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Private UKIP poll has Farage behind in South Thanet

Private UKIP poll has Farage behind in South Thanet

The Thanet ComRes poll Farage censored via @suttonnick http://t.co/J2ax7nThki pic.twitter.com/bGXW0g0Z9N — TSE (@TSEofPB) April 4, 2015 Last night The Mail on Sunday reported Nigel Farage faced claims of a ‘cover-up’ last night for censoring a poll that suggests he is on course for a humiliating personal defeat in the General Election. The secret Ukip-commissioned poll, leaked to The Mail on Sunday, shows that Farage has fallen behind his Tory opponent in the Kent seat he is contesting. And he is…

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Big hope for the Tories: Labour’s cack-handed campaigning will alienate 2010 LD switchers and tacticals

Big hope for the Tories: Labour’s cack-handed campaigning will alienate 2010 LD switchers and tacticals

LAB could have made this even less appealing to potential LD switchers with pics of Blunkett & Straw pic.twitter.com/cl7FIxKMW3 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 4, 2015 This is electorally illiterate The only chance that LAB has on May 7th is by keeping on board the 2010 LD switchers who’ve moved since last time and winning support of yellow tactical voters in the marginals. Labour’s polling position has been buttressed by the ex-LDs for the past four years. The good news…

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David Herdson says Ed won the debate because Clegg and Bennett didn’t

David Herdson says Ed won the debate because Clegg and Bennett didn’t

NIGHTMARE! Ed Miliband as PM, propped up by Alex Salmond ‘calling the tune’ if Labour gets into Downing Street pic.twitter.com/uNFHs5deTo — Grant Shapps (@grantshapps) March 9, 2015 Why for Dave the strong Sturgeon performance was a sideshow Earlier this campaign, the Conservatives unveiled the above poster showing Ed Miliband in Alex Salmond’s pocket; the inference being that in a hung parliament it would be the SNP pulling Labour’s strings. Nicola Sturgeon’s very capable handling of Thursday’s debate did nothing to…

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