Survey Date CON (%) LAB (%) LD (%) Con Lead YouGov/Sun 09/09/10 42 37 14 5 YouGov/Sun 06/09/10 42 37 13 5 YouGov/Sunday Times 03/09/10 42 37 12 5 YouGov/Sun 02/09/10 42 37 12 5 YouGov/Sun 01/09/10 43 37 12 6 YouGov/Sun 31/08/10 43 38 11 5 YouGov/Sunday Times 27/08/10 41 37 13 4 YouGov/Sun 26/08/10 42 37 12 5 YouGov/Sun 25/08/10 42 37 12 5 YouGov/Sun 24/08/10 41 38 13 3 YouGov/Sun 23/08/10…
BBC News But will they be able to nail Coulson? The hacking debate ended with an agreement by MPs without a vote that the Standards and Privileges Committee should hold an inquiry into the matter. So at the very minimum the affair will drag on causing potential embarrassment to Downing Street. The real issue is whether this format will be provide means to “get” Coulson. When he appeared before MPs last year the former News of the World editor escaped…
How good is YouGov polling of Labour 56 days out? With David Miliband moving in the betting to being an 80% favourite perhaps we ought to reflect again on the ONLY poll of Labour and fee paying TU members who have been voting in this election. That survey closed 56 days before the end of voting. We’ve had nothing since and the Labour race of 2010 looks set to be the most under-polled leadership election of recent times. Even the…
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Can they make him a proxy for Coulson? With Speaker Bercow announcing that there’ll be a debate tomorrow on the phone tapping allegations it’s worth noting the interesting take on the affair Telegraph by Labour’s former number director of political operations at Number 10, John McTernan. He writes: “..The problem is that the attack on Andy Coulson, Cameron’s communications chief and the tabloid’s former editor, is transparently party-political. This is perfectly justifiable in terms of the Westminster game – as…
Can they make him a proxy for Coulson? With Speaker Bercow announcing that there’ll be a debate tomorrow on the phone tapping allegations it’s worth noting the interesting take on the affair Telegraph by Labour’s former number director of political operations at Number 10, John McTernan. He writes: “..The problem is that the attack on Andy Coulson, Cameron’s communications chief and the tabloid’s former editor, is transparently party-political. This is perfectly justifiable in terms of the Westminster game – as…
Or will Parliament heed its Clerk? An interesting piece in the Guardian reports the evidence given by Malcolm Jack, Clerk of the House of Commons, to the Political & Constitutional Reform Committee. He has warned that the plan to introduce five-year Fixed-Term Parliaments (part of the Coalition Agreement) could force the courts to make judgements on “matters of acute political controversy, such as whether an election should be held”. The Clerk also attacked the failure to draft the legislation in…