The last Labour leader to take his party from opposition to government put education at the heart of his campaign and I suspect Starmer’s policy on private schools might also become similarly totemic. The polling is clear and if the Tories try to oppose and criticise Starmer’s policy it will make the Tories look even more out of touch with the ordinary, I’m sure the Red Wall will want tax breaks for rich people instead of that money going to…
Sometimes there isn’t much to add and that word cloud sums up the absolute dire situation that the Tory party faces. The difficulty for the Tories is that they cannot campaign on the Covid vaccine rollout because it will bring up memories about all Tory rule breaking during the lockdowns. With Brexit going suboptimally in the eyes of the voters then being the party that gave us Brexit might not be a vote winner. If Sunak cannot turn this polling…
As I have observed recently one of the big issues facing Rishi Sunak is that he is still struggling in the polls. The Tories continue to be miles behind which if it was to be repeated at a general election would see hundreds of Tory MPs losing their seats. It was being speculated yesterday that if the election followed some of the latest polls than the Tories would be down to a handful of seats and that the SNP would…
Bingo. I’m now off the waiting list for my spinal operation and this is now all fixed for three weeks today. The idea that in less than a month I could be walking again without pain is just fantastic. The speed has rather taken me by surprise. I only saw the consultant on December 30th and I was expecting a huge wait for the prescribed procedure. This comes at a time when all the papers are reporting on the decline…
If the Tories were hoping that the New Year might see a change in their dire polling situation then they will have been disappointed. We’ve now seen enough polls carried out since the start of the year to come to that conclusion. What is clear is that the autumn change of leadership to first Truss and then Sunak has had no impact on how voters see the current party of government. This all comes as we get closer to when…
How long before the monarchy becomes an issue?