How Trump responded when he was asked by Fox News what his priorities were for a second term
Make of that what you will.
The big message from the Long-Bailey sacking is that Labour is Starmer’s party now
The contrast with Johnson on Cummings/Jenrick should worry ministers The big political news on most of the front pages is Starmer’s sacking from his shadow cabinet of the former leadership rival Long-Bailey for circulating what could be regarded as an antisemitic article. In many ways the firmness of Stamer’s approach should not surprise us because ridding the party of antisemitism has been one of his stated early key objectives. Already he has come under fire for the Long Bailey action…
Harris retains her strong favourite position in the Democratic VP betting with Susan Rice now second favourite
I have a very long history of always losing money on the vice presidential choices in American election campaigns. This is not something that is decided by primaries or elections of some form but is the personal choice of the presumptive nominee in this case Joe Biden. I’ve moved around so much in the betting on this that I have now cashed out on Betfair making a small profit whatever happens. I have another bet on Susan Rice at Ladbrokes…
If Starmer is ever to become PM he’s likely going to need some sort of relationship with the next LD leader
He needs an “understanding” like the GE1997 Blair-Ashdown link The Lib Dem leadership election is now down to just two with with the Oxford West and Abingdon MP, Layla Moran taking on the current acting leader, the Kingston MP Ed Davey who, of course, stood a year ago go against Jo Swinson and lost. Moran is the odds-on favourite. Where the contest could be important is if, as is highly likely at the next election, Starmer’s LAB is unable to…
12 Good Men
On the decision to suspend jury trials I loved Latin at school. My award for Latin poetry recital is carefully preserved and I remain mildly hopeful that, one day, it might even prove useful. Poetry aside, it was then seen as necessary to become a lawyer. For the first few years of practice those Latin sayings encapsulating legal rules became firmly lodged in my head. Then they were no longer compulsory, plain clear English becoming the rule. Quite right. But…
With ten days to go before the July 4th lockdown easing the numbers continue to look good for the government
The above Tweet comes out every afternoon and as can seen the numbers are very much down and the hope must be that they will be a lot smaller on July 4th when the first round of changes come in. Note that the death total only refers to those who had been tested and proved positive. There is another group of people who died during the period without having previously been tested. The data for this segment tends to take…
Could it be even at this late stage that Trump doesn’t become the nominee?
The above video is one of a series of hard attacking ads against Donald Trump that are being produced by an apparently well funded Republican organisation called the Lincoln Project. They are aimed at the Republicans and the aim is to raise doubts about the incumbent’s fitness to continue in office and so preventing a second term. What is particularly intriguing about them is that they are more powerful than just about anything that is being produced by Joe Biden…
First YouGov polling response to the lockdown changes looks positive for the ministers
First polling response to the lockdown changes look positive pic.twitter.com/b6my26yx9C — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 23, 2020