The money goes on the Tory chairman being axed There’s been a big betting move overnight with punters rushing to get on Baroness Warsi as the next cabinet minister to leave. Yesterday at 5.22pm I backed her at 16/1 with Ladbrokes who’ve now brought her price in to 5/1. PaddyPower, meanwhile have made her the 2/1 favourite with Cameron at 9/2 and the odds-on favourite of only a few weeks ago, Chris Huhne, out to 8/1. What’s driving this is…
Hope you can make the next PB gathering Thanks to Fat Steve for once again organising this. We are having an informal get-together at the historic Dirty Dicks pub opposite the main entrance to Liverpool Street station in London. There’s no need to book but it does help if those who are coming can email Steve at Londonevent@politicalbetting.com It was a great gathering there in April before the elections – see you there next month Whatever your connection with PB…
Guardian Will this undermine efforts to occupy the moral high ground Just 24 hours after the attack on Ruperrt Murdoch while giving evidence to the commons committee the Guardian has given a platform to the man responsible, Jonnie Marbles He’s been given a column in which he seeks to justify why he did it. I think the Guardian’s move is dumb beyond belief – it looks as though it’s taking its campaign against News International and Murdoch just too far….
Why’s it taken so long for him to admit the mistake? For me the big element in today’s statement on the hacking scandal from David Cameron was his observation “with hindsight” that he would not have hired Andy Coulson. This comes after massive pressure over the past fortnight when he’s remained equivocal over the decision to hire the ex-NOTW editor in 2007 and then, in May 2010, to appoint him as head of communication at Number 10. Surely a lot…
And Ladbrokes now make Dave 4/1 to be next cabinet exit The third major telephone poll of the month, the July political monitor by Ipsos-MORI for Reuters, is being published this morning and looks set to have bad news for the blues. Although the actual figures are not yet available the above chart has been based on data from a Reuters news video which can be seen here. The Tory share of 32% is the lowest with the pollster since…
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