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Will Labour aim to gain the initiative by steering for Clear Red Water? Amid the carnage of dreadful Sunday newspapers, two opinion polls giving the Conservatives leads sufficient to produce a landslide if reproduced at a general election (see previous threads), the continued rumblings of smeargate dragging Ed Balls and Labour General Secretary Ray Collins into the scandal, and the criticisms of former MP Alice Mahon, one would imagine that some thought must be being given in Downing Street to…

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Times online As well as the Telegraph poll reported on the previous thread there’s another poll tonight – from the unregistered BPIX in the Mail on Sunday This has the Tories on 45% to Labour’s 26% with no figure for the LDs reported. I don’t usually have much time for BPIX because it’s not part of the British Polling Council and doesn’t make its detailed data available. Away from the polling are two further potentially explosive stories for Labour in…

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CON 43 (-1) LAB 26 (-5) LD 21 (+3) Will the Sunday Telegraph survey give Cameron a boost A new survey by an ICM associated company for the Sunday Telegraph reports a sharp reverse for Labour after its terrible week. I’ve assumed that the methodology has followed the standard ICM format and my comparisons above are with the last poll from the firm. This is the second lowest Labour share ever from the polling group and the only consolation for…

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What impact will piracy have this century? This has been a fortnight in which piracy has seen more news coverage than at any time since Blackbeard. Sadly, for all the romance of the name, piracy is no longer the wooden-legged, eye-patched, be-parroted world of Captain Hook and Long John Silver. In the 21st century, a ‘pirate’ will tend to belong to one of two distinct species: pirata mogadisciensis and pirata suionese (sometimes known as pirata cyberspacensis) The former can be…

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Why are 30% still saying they’ll vote Labour? A couple of rules of engagement first, partly to avoid this being 16 screens long. I’m not going to focus on the past, good or bad, since I interpret Morus’s challenge as “Why should we support Labour now?” rather than “Did you do a good/bad job on the minimum wage/Northern Ireland/Iraq/Lisbon etc.?” Second, I don’t expect anyone to change their allegiance as a result of reading the article. What I’m trying to…

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Does she think it’ll boost her chances of her survival? Perhaps the most remarkable feature following yesterday’s decision by the DPP not to prosecute Damien Green has been the reaction of Jacqui Smith and her home office team. For in spite of everything she seems to be still fighting the case. We saw it in her TV interviews yesterday and there’s a flavour in some of the coverage this morning. Philip Webster and Francis Elliott write in the Times that..”…

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