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Yesterday The Times reported When David Canzini, the prime minister’s new deputy chief of staff, addressed advisers on Friday last week he had some surprising news. The strategist, an ally of Sir Lynton Crosby, told those present that they had to begin preparing for the possibility of a general election in the autumn of next year. While May 2024 remains the most likely date, Canzini said that the “clock is ticking”. The prime minister, he said, was “not out of the woods…

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Hardly apt given Ukraine wants to join the EU

From 1988 on young children treated for complex heart complaints at the Bristol Royal Infirmary had high death rates, higher than might be expected for such difficult surgery. Between 1986 – 1995 170 children who would likely have survived in other units, died; about 25 – 30 suffered permanent brain damage. An inquiry by Professor Ian Kennedy QC found a unit “simply not up to the task“, a result of poor leadership, a doctors’ “old boys‘” culture, secrecy and a…

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One of the most interesting regular bets that we now have is on whether either LAB or CON will get a poll lead during a particular month. The current bet is on the Tories and as can be seen the closest they’ve got in any poll is 2%. At one stage the Tories were odds-on favourite to do this but as each day goes by without such a lead the odds change. I would still rate their chances of doing…

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At a time like this when the narrative is so much against Putin’s Russia it takes a very brave, or foolhardy, Westminster Tory MP to question the actions of his government. One person in that category is reflected in the Tweet and video clip above – Daniel Kawczynski – MP for Shrewsbury. Last week his constituency Tory party said it wished to “dissociate” itself from comments made about Ukrainian refugees by Kawczynski on Twitter. Since then he has closed his…

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There is a good argument for saying that the 41% on Johnson still being CON leader at the next election is a good value bet. Certainly, there has been a fair amount of turbulence on this market in recent months and now YES is on the rise. My main reason is the same as I was arguing in January when things looked a lot bleaker for the PM. For all his problems it is hard to see a majority of…

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24 days to go before the first round of voting in the French election and the Macron campaign is in danger of being blown off course by rioting in Corsica and his pledge in response to look at autonomy for the island after he is reelected. This has caused his opponents to go on the offensive against him as the Times reports: Macron’s three main rightwing opponents accused him of capitulation and breaching the ancient French principle of the unitary…

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Last week on one of the threads a couple of PBer got into a wager as to whether during March there would be a day when Ukraine wasn’t on three or more of the front pages. Well although we have only seen a couple of the nationals so far tonight it’s pretty certain that the release and flight to Britain by Nazanin is going to dominate just about all the papers. This will come as a huge relief for her…

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