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We have hardly looked at the US mid-term elections on PB but these look set to probably be the biggest political betting gamble of the year. . There is a long history of whichever party has taken the White House two years beforehand having a rough time in the mid-term elections and all the predictions were that the Democrats were going to struggle Two things have changed all of that. The decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn the…

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This Tweet hits the nail on the head

The above from People Polling for GB News is the first leader rating data we have since she was elected and as can be seen just 15% view her favourably. That compares with a whopping 51% saying unfavourable. Perhaps the worst split is from those who voted Tory at GE2019. In this poll just 35% said they had a favourable view of Liz Truss. That is the worst I’ve seen for any Tory leader in any poll since the last…

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The death of the Queen yesterday is a massive moment in just about all of our lives and it is going to dominate everything until after the funeral. I have been quite surprised about my own feelings on the matter and found myself glued to the TV last night flicking from one channel to another seeing how they were covering the aftermath. I met the Queen twice and was impressed by the way she could put people at ease and…

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Yesterday, before the sad news about the Queen, the new PM, Liz Truss, was talking about her plans for the UK’s future energy policy a key part of which was about changing the law that restricts fracking.  She said she wanted to lift the moratorium, brought in by the Tories, to get gas flowing from this source in as soon as six months. This is a subject that the environmentally conscious new King has been very opposed to in the…

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As one Elizabethan era begins I fear another one is about to end. Even ardent republicans like myself know we are unlikely to ever see someone like Queen Elizabeth II again. It is clear something serious is up with her with so many family rushing to Balmoral today. TSE

YouGov have a LAB 15% lead The Times is reporting a new YouGov poll where all the fieldwork took place after she became PM. The numbers are not encouraging for the new leader and according to the report LAB is 15% ahead. The other details are not included in the report and we will have to wait for the full breakdown. One detail we have is that YouGov found that 25% of those polled thought she would make the best…

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