Sky News Will it be chucked back at the Tories for years to come? What a 24 hours it’s been for top Tory advisor and former cabinet minister, Lord Young. Yesterday he was waking up to the coverage of the Spectator “Parliamentarian of the Year Awards” when he pulled off the honour of being the “Peer of the Year”. This morning he’s in the doghouse and after having to eat humble pie following his comments to the Telegraph that the…
Poll/publication Date CON % LAB % LD % YouGov/Sun 17/11/10 40 40 11 Ipsos-MORI/Reuters 14/11/10 36 39 14 ComRes/Independent 30/10/10 35 37 16 Angus Reid/ 28/10/10 35 37 15 Populus/Times 24/10/10 37 38 15 ICM/Guardian 24/10/10 39 36 16 As regulars will know I have always been strongly against polling averages. However I am coming to a view that we do need something which provides an indicator of the broad trend by taking the last survey from each of the…
HenryG looks at where the political battle-grounds will be Over the years I’ve noticed that one of the biggest misconceptions the public have is that their council services are funded almost entirely by the council tax they pay. In good times this isn’t so much of a problem, but it will be the cause of a major headache for the coalition too. The realisation that government spending cuts at Westmininster will hit their council’s services is starting to emerge as…
What do we think of the Spectator’s line-up of awards? We’re coming to that point in the calendar when we also start to look back over the year that was and the first set-piece event took place last night – The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards 2010. This was the line-up after an extraordinary and eventful year that simply did not go to plan. Who could have predicted these names on January 1st? Newcomer of the Year: Caroline Lucas…
Hope you can make the next PB gathering Thanks to Fat Steve for once again organising this. We are having an informal get-together tonight at the historic Dirty Dicks pub opposite the main entrance to Liverpool Street station. Kick off is at 6.30pm and I am on the train bound for London. Details of the venue and how to find it can be found here. Mike Smithson
Poll/Publication Date CON % LAB % LD % Ipsos-MORI/Reuters 14/11/10 36 39 14 Ipsos-MORI/Reuters 17/10/10 39 36 14 Ipsos-MORI/Reuters 12/09/10 37 37 15 Ipsos-MORI/Reuters 25/07/10 40 38 14 Ipsos-MORI/Reuters 20/06/10 39 31 19 The red team at its highest level since October 2007 The first non-YouGov poll of November, from Ipsos-MORI, is just out and is in line with the trend from YouGov in showing a movement to Labour. The share of 39% is the highest from the firm since…
Miranda Grell – disqualified by the Woolas law in 2007 One of the things that has been said repeatedly about the Woolas case is that it is only the second instance in 99 years of this law being used to try to over-turn an election for a Westminster constituency. True. But there is a much more recent case involving a council election. The woman standing next to David Miliband in the picture is Miranda Grell who won a seat in…
Poll/publication Date CON % LAB % LD % YouGov/Sun 16/11/10 37 42 10 YouGov/Sun 15/11/10 40 42 10 YouGov/Sunday Times 12/11/10 39 41 10 YouGov/Sun 11/11/10 40 40 10 YouGov/Sun 10/11/10 42 37 11 YouGov/Sun 09/11/10 40 39 13 YouGov/Sun 08/11/10 42 39 11 YouGov/Sunday Times 05/11/10 40 39 12 YouGov/Sun 04/11/10 40 39 11 YouGov/Sun 03/11/10 40 40 9 YouGov/Sun 02/11/10 41 40 11 YouGov/Sun 01/11/10 41 39 11 YouGov/Sunday Times 29/10/10 42 37 13 YouGov/Sun 28/10/10 41 39…