Tonight’s Andrew Neil-Corbyn interview – this is as tough as it gets

Tonight’s Andrew Neil-Corbyn interview – this is as tough as it gets

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One thing’s for sure: Johnson and Swinson won’t be looking forward to their sessions Jeremy Corbyn just gave one of the worst political performances of modern times. In his interview with Andrew Neil he came across as bored, irritable, ill-informed and unprincipled. It was career-endingly terrible.#andrewneilinterviews#BBCelectionhttps://t.co/SIuMUIyKQ2 — Theodora Dickinson (@TheaDickinson) November 26, 2019 Andrew Neil is brilliant. He makes the useless leaders of all parties squirm. Sturgeon & Corbyn absolutely taken apart. He will exactly the same to Johnson &…

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Finchley & Golders Green – the only constituency where there’ve been two polls

Finchley & Golders Green – the only constituency where there’ve been two polls

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The Chief Rabbi’s comments on anti-semitism put the focus once again on what’s troubled Corbyn’s Labour Party for nearly 2 years – the way it has handled anti-semitism within the movement. One of the high-profile victims of some serious online antisemitism was the former Liverpool Wavertree MP, Luciana Berger who has now switched to the Lib Dems and will be fighting the the Finchley and Golders Green seat on December 12th. She left her original party after facing a torrent…

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Reporting from the front Lyme

Reporting from the front Lyme

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From the PBer who could be an MP in 17 days time As regular readers will know, I am the Conservative candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyme, a seat that has been Labour for a century and has not elected a Conservative since 1880. However I am now facing a majority of just 30, in a seat that voted around 63% to Leave. That’s the official Borough figure – Professor Chris Hanretty has the constituency a touch lower at 61.6% but observers who…

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Swinson opens up a 28 point ratings gap over Johnson in six London remain seats

Swinson opens up a 28 point ratings gap over Johnson in six London remain seats

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In deepest Remainia the polling picture is very different For the last couple of Sundays the former YouGov president, Peter Kellner, has published a total of six constituency polls as part of an effort to examine potential tactical voting possibilities in seats which voted Remain at the referendum. So far all of them have been in London but next weekend we are promised a selection from elsewhere in England. The voting figures in all six seats have the Tories in…

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Majority opinion. Looking at the Conservatives’ chances from a different perspective

Majority opinion. Looking at the Conservatives’ chances from a different perspective

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Average of 8 latest polls, taken 14-22 Nov (incl today's BMG, Opinium, Panelbase, YouGov):Con 43%Lab 29%Lib Dem 15%Brexit Party 4%Green 3% Projected Con majority 94 (All polls take account of Brexit Party standing down; Scotland projected from Panelbase & YouGov, 9-25 Oct) — John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) November 23, 2019 But the range is still huge, from Con majority of 0 on a 10-point lead (Panelbase) to one of 210 on a 19-point lead (Opinium) — John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) November 23,…

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We could be just 18 days away from the next LAB leadership contest

We could be just 18 days away from the next LAB leadership contest

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The Friday afternoon’s following general elections almost always see at least one party leader stepping down. Given Corbyn has indicated that he will go if LAB register a fourth successive general election defeat then just 18 days from today a party leadership race could begin. So far as the betdata.io chart shows Rebecca Long-Bailey has now been pipped as the Betfair betting favourite by Keir Starmer but he’s rated by punters as having less than a 20% chance. Quite how…

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The polling that’s persuaded me that turnout will be greater than 66.4%

The polling that’s persuaded me that turnout will be greater than 66.4%

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My 66.4% or more turnout spread bet When it became clear that we were going to have a December general election the general view was this would inevitably lead to a lower turnout than the 68.8% of GE2017. The argument was that at this time of year the days are getting very short and and it will be harder to both campaign and to persuade voters to turn out on. My view is that what drives turnout is how important…

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Another man in his late ’70s puts his hat into the ring for WH2020

Another man in his late ’70s puts his hat into the ring for WH2020

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New York Times This had been expected but during the day the multi-billionaire former Republican, Michael Bloomberg has announced that he is running for the White House and he’s formally entered the race. He said: ““Defeating Donald Trump — and rebuilding America — is the most urgent and important fight of our lives. And I’m going all in,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “I offer myself as a doer and a problem solver — not a talker. And someone who is ready…

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