Which of the Euro “Big 3” will have the first meeting? William Hill has just put up a new market on which of Europe’s ‘Big Three’ leaders will be the first to hold an official meeting with new President. Brown is favourite at evens, Merkel is 2/1 with Sarkozy the 3/1 outsider. (UPDATE Now 5/2) The terms of the bet seem to favour Brown given there’s the G20 meeting scheduled for April – but Downing Street is already suggesting that…
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Will his popularity never be as high as this? So we are here, January the twentieth 2009 when the 44th President of the United State will be sworn in at noon Washington time (5pm GMT) As we have seen in the media build-up this is much more than an American occasion for the eyes and hopes of the world will be on the US capital today and there will be overwhelming goodwill towards the new man. It helps that he…
CONSERVATIVES 44% (+5) LABOUR 30% (-5) LIB DEMS 17% (+2) More will follow later in the evening.
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CONSERVATIVES 43% (+11) LABOUR 37% (-2) LIB DEMS 13% (-9) Why’s the swing smaller in the capital? A new poll of London voters from Yougov for the Evening Standard suggest that there’s been a big swing to the Tories since the general election. The shares are above with changes on what happened in May 2005. The paper suggests that Labour would lose 11 of its 44 seats in the city and the report is presented as very bad news for…
Is Ken tasked with “bursting the Brown bubble”? I was very taken by a comment from a ConHome contributor, Jono, that the real reason why Clarke has been brought back is not to handle Mandelson – but to challenge Brown. This was picked up by ChritstinaD. Jono writes “..There is one pillar of the whole, painstakingly constructed edifice of the Brown myth that has always been vulnerable and that is the role of Ken Clarke in creating what was sustainable…
Has Cameron done the right thing? If BBC News has got this right and the story above is correct then Ken Clarke is about to return to the Shadow Cabinet and the first PB betting call of 2009 has come good. I’ve got a fair bit on at 6/4 and I hope others have too. The big question is how this is going to play politically and whether Cameron’s gamble is going to pay off. Clearly the leader needed a…