Which of these three will be out first?
Make your prediction in this PB “poll” Which of Dave/Ed/Nick will be first to stop being party leader? David Cameron Nick Clegg Ed Miliband Mike Smithson is back on Thursday.
Will Fox return to the cabinet?
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic How long will Cameron keep him on the backbenches? David Blunkett, Peter Mandelson (twice), Michael Heseltine, Anthony Eden, Harold Wilson and Winston Churchill all did it. They are among the few to return to the cabinet after having previously resigned for something other than electoral defeat. After Fox’s departure this week, the question is whether he’ll buck the odds and join the select band. It is not likely to be an easy route. After nearly…
Labour move to an 8 point lead with Populus
And the LDs drop to a new low in a phone poll With the YouGov daily poll, however, Labour’s lead drops to 3 points tonight. It has CON 37%: LAB 40%: LD 9%.
Would EdM fare better if he dropped his Balls?
Does having Ed Balls as Shadow Chancellor help or hinder Ed Miliband? It helps It hinders It makes no difference either way Mike Smithson returns from his holiday in Andalusia this Thursday Recent Threads
What part will Herman Cain play in 2012?
Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) Morus examines the candidate leading the GOP polls It’s not easy for the party outwith the White House to unseat a sitting (elected) President. Since the last depression, FDR, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and GW Bush all strode to re-election. Truman retired, JFK was shot, Johnson beaten by his own party, Ford was never elected. Carter would be unique, were it not for the three-way split caused by Ross Perot that allowed Clinton to beat GHW…
Sunday into Monday with NightHawks
Ed slips in the ComRes post conference leadership ratings
Mike Smithson returns from Spain on Thursday
After the resignation, what’s in the Sundays?
Could taxes on flights (and facelifts?) be a political battleground? Fox may be firmly back at home and on the backbenches (and how many of you had winning bets on his departure – or Hammond’s arrival?), but the reverberations continue in today’s Sunday papers. The Sunday Telegraph reports that Werritty received money from donors to “promote their political agenda but were furious to discover the cash was used to fund his lavish lifestyle†– and donors expecting to remain secret…