After a period which has brought one negative story after another for Ed Miliband the Labour leader cannot have been looking forward to PMQs. He got off to a difficult start attacking the government on the rail fare increases which Cameron said was the result of the Labour government’s policies. I don’t know who was right on that one but EdM didn’t come out of the exchange very well. Spats over fact are tricky for the opposition leader and and…
ABC news Even though it less than half an hour since the polls closed the outcome in New Hampshire is clear – Romney winning by the margins predicted in the final polls with Paul in second place and Huntsman down in third. Unless there’s a big change as more results come in this must surely mark the end for John Huntsman who appeared to surge in recent days. Romney will go into to the third state, South Carolina, next week…
This is the ballot form that NH voters have faced It’s slightly shocking to see how many candidates are on the ballot. It’s also interesting looking at the order of names. It seems that this is alphabetical starting at a random point. All very fair because with long ballot forms like this the experience is that those nearer the top might have an advantage. Of the main candidates Newt Gingrich is closest to the top while Rick Santorum is at…
Nearly two years on and LAB still being blamed Apart from the HS2 decision the big UK political news today has been Ed Miliband’s big speech on the economy and how a future LAB government would operate. A particular point was his promise that in order to win in 2015 “Labour would be “a different party from the one we were in the past”. He also said they were ready to take on “vested interests” and “deliver fairness”. All fine…
Betfair Hillary price NH primary day 2008 It’s New Hampshire primary day and perhaps a good moment to reflect on the nightmare political betting night that some punters had four years ago. In the Democratic race Obama had won Iowa a few days earlier and looked on target to take New Hampshire. It all seemed so certain. An opinion poll of the state by Gallup on the day before had reported 41% for Obama with 28% for Hillary Clinton. Nobody…
Can Newt get his revenge? The video, a trailer to a 30 minute film, has been funded and made by an organisation that is supporting Newt Gingrich. Although he has not expressed it in these words the ex-house speaker seems intent on doing whatever he can to stop Romney. This is the first time that the front-runner’s time as CEO of Bain has come under serious fire and this is likely to continue right through until November, assuming he gets…
Will he ever get over it with the party? A Labour friend has just dropped me a line to point out that at the Labour leadership election in September 2010 Ed Miliband was the first choice of just 4% of the constituency parties. This comes on top of the Parliamentary Labour Party going for his brother with his victory down totally to the efforts on his behalf by the country’s three big unions. As Henry says this goes a long…
For MPs the waiting will soon be over The part of the UK that is most affected by the seat equalisation and reduction plan is Wales where the boundary commissioners were charged with reducing the number of constituencies from the current 40 to 30. This is a cutback of a quarter. To put this into context the national reduction is from 650 seats to 600. According to the initial time-table the proposals for the new Welsh electoral map were due…