Home of the web’s best political conversation If you’ve been Working 9 to 5, or longer, why not relax, and converse into the night on the day’s events in PB NightHawks. If you’re a lurker, why not delurk tonight? The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant link) Antifrank looks at the Lab battleground. Antifrank looks at the Lib Dem battleground. Why changing leader now  WILL save the Lib Dems…
Andy Coulson found guilty of phone hacking – Rebekah Brooks cleared of all counts – live coverage http://t.co/ttEdsghdol via @guardian — Paul Owen (@PaulTOwen) June 24, 2014 DC "if I have been lied to, that would be the moment for profound apology. In that event, I can tell you I will not fall short" July 20 2011 — Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) June 24, 2014 Cameron to make "a profound apology" for employing Andy Coulson as his communications director; No10 sources….
One thing’s already established for GE15. We are going to see far more different polling types than anything that has been experienced before at a British general election. We are also seeing a wider range of funders like today’s Survation poll in four key London commuter belt marginals which was commissioned by the RMT union. Clearly the union has funded this for a purpose but the voting questions were asked first using Survation’s normal approach. The seats surveyed by phone…
Ashcroft National Poll, 20-22 June: CON 28%, LAB 33%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 17%. Full details on @ConHome, 4pm — Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) June 23, 2014 So far predictions of its demise have been premature A very large number of people predicted after the May 22nd elections that as we got closer to next May’s general election then UKIP’s totals would start to fade away. Well it is now a month after we were digesting those results and the picture is…
YouGov London poll has Tessa Jowell as most favoured LAB candidate for London Mayor. My money's on Sadiq Khan pic.twitter.com/nPofYMyxvW — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 23, 2014 One of the great political betting events is the fight every four years for Mayor of London and the next contest is just 22 months away. Coming up in the next few months will be Labour’s selection process for their nominee who, given the party’s huge success in the capital on May 22nd,…
Regular PBer’s will know that five years ago I built VIPA, a model that attempted to look at proportionate swings on a party-by-party basis to model results. This model was – to be quite frank – stolen by Nate Silver, and he used it with much bally-ho. While VIPA did a better job of predicting the 2010 election than UNS (it was noticeably more pessimistic on the LibDems than UNS, for example), it was not perfect. And so, 11 months…
Fewer than one in four voters back Gove’s flagship policy Maybe it is because free schools have been making the news because of the Birmingham developments and the row between Michael Gove and Theresa May but the blue team will be disappointed by the response to this key policy area in today’s YouGov. The actual wording of the question was whether those pollsed supported or opposed “The creation of “Free Schools” – new state schools set up by parents, teachers…
Today’s YouGov has CON 32/LAB 38/LD 8/UKIP 14 The chart above is based on the YouGov monthly averages for the past year plus, for June, an average of the past 15 polls. As I’ve written many times before there are so many YouGov polls (five or six a week) that looking at averages is the best way of observing the trend. Thankfully the firm is making the calculations and is now publishing them. I used to attempt this task myself!…