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Thirsk & Malton Result 2005 CONSERVATIVES 20.167 (52.9%) 25,702 (51.9%) LIB DEMS 8,886 (23.3%) 9,314 (18.8%) LABOUR 5,169 (13.5%) 11,585 (23.4%) UKIP 2,502 (6.6%) 1,522 (3.1%) The Coalition takes 76% of the votes After all the expectations that the Lib Dems could see their vote squeezed in the deferred election at Thirsk & Malton the first major electoral test since the formation of the coalition has provided good news for Clegg’s party and bad news for Labour. Voting in this…

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Should the Beeb have booted Alistair Campbell off the panel? This is from the BBC editors blog of Gavin Allen – editor of Question Time. “..This week, for the first time in my three years as executive editor of Question Time, we were told by Downing Street that a cabinet minister would only appear on the programme if another member of the panel was replaced. According to No 10, a senior member of the cabinet was available to do Question…

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This is from some polling that Ipsos-MORI is publishing on its site tomorrow. It’s not about voting intention but perceptions of the parties that exist now in this post-election post coalition deal world. The key points for each:- The Conservative party is seen to be most professional, have the best team of leaders and to understand the problems facing Britain. Its image has improved significantly on these attributes since 2006. On the negative side it is is least likely to…

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Are the Cambridge grads now out of it? Another day and more nominations come in for the Labour leadership with the two Milibands having achieved the threshold and with Ed Balls getting a tad closer to that 33 nomination target. It’s starting to look as though only the University of Oxford graduates who are running, the Milibands and Balls, are going to make it. Of the other three Abbott and Burnham both went to Cambridge while John McDonnell went to…

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Is it looking like a three or four cornered contest? Tonight’s tally on nominations in the Labour leadership race has the Milibands continuing to dominate with 95 between them. In third place is Ed Balls who has seen a bit of a boost during the day an is now at 23 – just ten short. Behind him is Andy Burnham on 14 with John McDonnell with just four. So far the only woman in the race, Diane Abbott, has no…

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