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Why the improvements for Miliband and Clegg? The focus on the budget in the past couple of days has over-shadowed the latest Ipsos-MORI poll with its all important leader ratings. These have been part of the firm’s polling for 37 years and the firm remains the only non-online pollster that asks this on monthly basis. The question is framed as – are you satisfied or dissatisfied?. The latest numbers show the best ratings for Ed Miliband since last last summer…

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Why’s he hitting those most likely to vote Tory? Lots to digest from the Osborne budget and the item that I’m most surprised to see is the phasing out of pensioners tax allowances. Eh? These are are people who played a key part in getting rid of Labour ar the last general election. They are the most blue-inclined segment of the electorate, and they are most likely to be on the register and to vote. Also many have been hit…

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Something tells me this Budget will showcase Osborne’s love of political trap-setting for his opponents. He finds the sport irresistible. — Stewart Wood (@StewartWood) March 18, 2012 Will traps be sets for The Eds, Nick and the unions? At the weekend Ed Miliband’s top adviser and the man who played a key part in his leadership victory, Stewart (now Lord) Wood made the above observation about today’s budget. And when Stewart talks about traps being set he knows what he’s…

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Google politics The question isn’t who’s the nominee. It’s whether Romney soars or limps into Tampa. That’s not determined yet. — Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) March 21, 2012 Romney unable to break through with key constituencies tonight, like voters who do not like Mitt Romney. — Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) March 21, 2012 Gingrich slumps to single figures? Mitt Romney had his predicted big win in Illinois overnight and is set, surely, to take the nomination? The state is a big one…

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And MORI has a sharp drop for LAB With the budget tomorrow, the Illinois primary and now the March MORI poll there’s a lot of news about. MORI has CON 36 (+1); LAB 37 (-4); LD 11 (-1) so the only big changes has been to the LAB share. What was a 6% LAB lead last month has become a 1% lead now. NOTE: I’m on holiday at the moment and am not spending much time on the site or…

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Is Ken being hit by the tax revelations? A new YouGOV poll has Boris at 54% to Ken’s 46% UPDATE: Boris price tightens sharply following poll Betfair Politics As can be seen from the chart punters now give Boris a 70% chance of victory. @MikeSmithsonOGH

Would such a move be a Tory “Clause 4 moment”? There’s an interesting article in the Guardian by Tim Montgomerie under the heading Class is the Conservative clause IV – The Tory party must appeal to the northern strivers to have any hope of another outright election victory He develops an argument first put last November when he argued that for his party to win a majority they had to be seen to be on the side of “the little…

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