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Will Miliband be seen as the victor? Labour source: ‘After 5 1/2 hour of talks which ended at 230 we’re confident we’ve agreement around our royal charter entrenched in statute’ — James Chapman (Mail) (@jameschappers) March 18, 2013 It’s being suggested that Leveson legislative measures will go into the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform bill instead of courts bill — Gary O’Donoghue (@BlindGazza) March 18, 2013 RT “@sophyridgesky: Labour saying it’s their Charter – with their position on apologies & press…

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Times front page reporting that Cameron ready to give ground over press reform. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 17, 2013

ComRes favourable/unfavourable ratings showing EdM’s doing worse against his party then Dave,Nick or Nigel twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 17, 2013 The latest ComRes poll features a range of questions that are very common in the USA but which we rarely see in the UK – favourable/unfavourable ratings for people and parties. I like this questioning a lot and let’s hope that the ComRes surveys for the Indy on Sunday/ S Mirror do it on a regular basis. To…

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Big ICM boost for Ukip in S Telegraph. See front page. twitter.com/suttonnick/sta… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013 The Ukip bandwagon rolls on with ComRes online now having them on 17% & CON in the 20s. Pie chart with changes on Feb twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013 ICM Wisdom Index chart from S Telegraph. twitter.com/suttonnick/sta… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013

See the huge falls in circulation numbers Revised version of the newspaper circulation table. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013 Getting the best out of “new Disqus Yesterday the Disqus comment system was changed in a manner that doesn’t fit with the way PB operates. Unlike the old Disqus we are unable to change key features. For the vast majority of us who like following chronological threads change the option under the discussion menu to new or old….

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The “grassroots” campaign trying to get Theresa May to run for the CON leadership twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 16, 2013 If so, what does it say about the Tories’ election prospects? When a party is polling poorly or suffering electoral reverses, it follows almost inevitably that its leader will be the subject of speculation as to his or her future.  By the same token, it also follows that the leader’s colleagues – the most likely successors – will…

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Hope you can make the next PB gathering Thanks to Fat Steve for once again organising this. We are having another informal get-together at the historic Dirty Dicks pub opposite the main entrance to Liverpool Street station in London. The day Friday: the Date April 19th: The time – from 6.30 pm onwards In response to several requests we are holding the event on a Friday night in the hope that it will attract more PBers from outside London who…

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