As infections surge governments are looking at new measures The sheer scale of the number of infections to the latest omnicom variant and the speed that it is spreading have caused Italy to be the first major country to make vaccinations compulsory. This will be for those of 50 and above. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that those who are fully vaccinated are less likely to be spreaders than those who have yet to have the jab…
Boris Johnson has invested in a very high quality and no doubt expensive suit and he looks a lot better for it. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to have helped his self-confidence for the above Times Radio interview when for a time he was barely coherent. Just click the link in the Tweet and the 46 seconds that is played is really quite shocking. I just wonder whether there is an issue here. I cannot recall any of his predecessors over…
The above polling from Ipsos-MORI came put over the holiday period and highlights the biggest challenge facing the Tories. Undoubtedly the party has and will continue to get political credit for the vaccine programme but that cannot be the be-all and end-all of the party’s appeal. It is also nothing like as important as it was a year ago. The NHS with just 21% saying “good job” is increasingly going to be problematic as people with needs other than those…
The most successful LAB leader ever
The Betdata.io chart shows the movements on Betfair in the next CON leader betting and as can be seen the big mover has been Liz Truss – who is now Foreign Secretary. You can tell she’s been making waves by just looking at the chart and seeing, as well, leaks about her that suggest that not everybody is happy by the prospect of her succeeding Johnson. The big thing she has on her side has been her strong showing in…
What happens in the absence of political news It is always interesting to see the first polling of a New Year because it generally follows a period when there have been very few political developments over the preceding two weeks. Undoubtedly the period leading up to Christmas was dreadful for the Tories including losing a by-election to a party that had been more than 50% behind at GE2019. The question now is will it last. I’ve just had a small…
The preferred PM/Chancellor team question is not one that gets included much in political polling but it was part of the latest MoS/Deltapoll at the weekend. To put the latest findings in context, I thought it useful to look back at previous Deltapolls where this has been included. As can be seen there has been a huge switch from plus 15% for Johnson/Sunak in September to a deficit of 5% in the latest polling. It should be said that there…