As can be seen the Daily Mirror is the only one which does not have reference to Brexit on its front page. Of course it might be that this is the best call from a news point of view given the potential threat that the flu represents. None of the Brexit related front pages is really very surprising and I doubt if many of them will be referred to much again as we enter into the new relationship with the…
This contest is going on far too long We are now 2 months and one week away from the special labour conference when the new leader will be announced. This will follow, of course, the membership ballot which won’t go out for weeks and won’t be counted until early April. This evening a total of 40 different constituency LAB parties have been meeting and results have been coming in. They haven’t been aggregated yet and we don’t have a total…
With the Irish general election taking place a week on Saturday the pressure is mounting on Leo Varadkar & the Fine Gael members. Michael Martin looks more certain to become the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) but it’s not over yet. Can Sinn Fein pull off the almighty, unbelievable upset, find out below!My predictions will be submitted in alphabetical order. Galway East (Three Seats) Galway East looks set to be a very interesting constituency and nobody is safe here, The current TD’s…
Drink, says the Porter in the ‘Scottish Play’, is an equivocator with lechery: “it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance…. it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him”. So it may prove with Brexit and Scottish Independence. Nicola Sturgeon loses no opportunity to remind Scots that Brexit is taking them out of the EU ‘against their will’, citing this as justification for holding another independence referendum so soon after the…
Confirmed – Northern Rail into public ownership from March 1st — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) January 29, 2020 Hear also the final decision on HS2 is to be made tomorrow in a meeting of PM, Chancellor and Transport Sec – mood music seems to pointing towards go ahead but, arguments don’t seem to be over and massive anxieties about cost — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) January 29, 2020 HS2 will be the most controversial One thing about having an ample majority is…
In January 2004 the former governor of Vermont, Howard Dean, looked as though he might make it right through to the nomination. He had been a big pioneer of utilising the internet for online donations and mobilising volunteers something that was quite new at the time. In the polls ahead of Iowa, then like now the first state to decide, he looked strong and was tight favourite, at one stage odds-on in the betting, for the nomination. At the time…
With “Brexit wrong” retaining its lead Johnson’s got to be careful about his tone on Friday Today’s YouGov poll will probably be the last one before Britain leaves the EU on Friday evening. I do hope that the firm will continue its regular Brexit tracker question which has been put in the same way since the referendum in June 2016 . As can be seen those thinking that Brexit is wrong are leading a situation that has existed for nearly…
Something like this could provide the starting numbers for Starmer’s leadership Clearly these are really excellent numbers for Johnson but partly this is explained by the almost total lack of opposition. The biggest battle that Johnson’s had to fight has been with his on party on his plans for Huawei. For a party to extend its polling lead in the aftermath of a stonking general election victory has been seen before and will be seen again. It will take time…