The PMQ thread
How much has Ed’s win boosted the pro-AV camp?
Will he become a leading player in the referendum campaign? Last week’s Labour leadership election was one of the most high-profile AV election that the British public’s seen. It was also one which would probably tie Ed Miliband into the Yes team for the referendum, even were he not already inclined that way. After he only took the lead on the final transfer of votes, it would undermine his own position to do anything else. The question is how energetically…
++++News International YouGov has C39:L41:LD11++++
Poll Date CON LAB LD News International/YouGov 01/10/10 39 41 11 News International/YouGov 30/09/10 41 39 12 News International/YouGov 29/09/10 41 39 12 News International/YouGov 28/09/10 41 40 12 News International/YouGov 27/09/10 39 40 12 News International/YouGov 24/09/10 39 38 15 The latest daily poll for News International from the YouGov polling panel has Labour with a two point lead and the Lib Dems down at 11%. So good news for the red team and bad news for the yellows…
Is Balls at Defence the coalition’s biggest fear?
Could Liam Fox be given the Michael Gove treatment? Yesterday I had a fascinating conversation with a well connected Lib Dem about how Ed Miliband should allocate portfolios in his new shadow cabinet line-up. He argued that the new leader’s main priority should be to use the talents he has at his disposal to maximise problems for the coalition. For Ed Balls he came up with the surprising suggestion of shadow secretary of defence. His view was that the most…
++++ComRes: CON39/LAB36/LD15++++
Survey Date CON % LAB % LD % ComRes/Independent 01/10/10 39 36 15 ComRes/IOS-S Mirror 17/09/10 37 35 15 ComRes/Independent 05/09/10 38 34 18 ComRes/Mirror/GMTV 15/08/10 39 33 15 ComRes/Independent 08/08/10 39 33 16 ComRes/Independent 27/06/10 40 31 18 ComRes/Independent on Sunday 17/06/10 36 30 23 ComRes/Independent 31/05/10 37 33 21 ComRes/IOS-S Mirror 13/05/10 38 34 21 Blow for Labour in new phone poll There’s a new phone poll from ComRes out in the Independent where the fieldwork finished yesterday…
Can Ed Miliband make inroads into these ICM figures?
Best for Britain..? All voters% CON voters% LAB voters% LD voters% CON alone 19 50 4 9 LAB alone 26 2 68 8 CON-LD coalition 21 41 3 41 LAB-LD coalition 13 4 20 25 Don’t know 20 4 7 17 Are the LDs and Tories just getting used to each other? The above table is based on data from the latest Guardian/ICM for which the full dataset has now just been published. It strikes me that this is increasingly…
Does Labour think that the Woolas case might be lost?
Is the party preparing for an “Old & Sad” by election? Word reaches me from the Manchester Labour conference that the party is “furiously phone canvassing” electors in the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency (Old & Sad) in case there might be an early by election. This, apparently, is a precautionary measure following the week-long court hearing there in mid-September over aspects of the Labour general election campaign in May. The Lib Dem candidate who lost by 103 votes claimed…