The extraordinary betting collapse of Michael Gove

The extraordinary betting collapse of Michael Gove

Betdata.io chart of movement on the Betfair exchange From 2nd favourite to a longshot in just a couple of days The big political news over the weekend has been the the reaction to Michael Gove’s statement that he had in the past taken cocaine. Although other runners for TMay’s job have made similar admissions about their drug-taking pasts the Gove one has had the biggest impact. Maybe this is because it was about cocaine. I wonder whether this will all…

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Addicted to Gove. The Bizarre Gove Triangle involving, Gove, cocaine, and the Tory leadership

Addicted to Gove. The Bizarre Gove Triangle involving, Gove, cocaine, and the Tory leadership

The problem for Gove isn't that that this a law an order issue. It's a class issue. "One rule for them, one rule for you and me". And at the moment, I don't see how he neutralises it. — (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) June 9, 2019 This is what I was talking about. And if it turns out to be true, I don't actually see how Gove stays in the race. https://t.co/ZxhaYbHnB3 — (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) June 9, 2019 Sajid Javid…

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Gove’s white lines are a red line for a majority of the electorate

Gove’s white lines are a red line for a majority of the electorate

And now with Michael Gove admitting to cocaine use when he was younger, we found that 56% of Brits think this should disqualify someone from top office https://t.co/997tPlJLel — YouGov (@YouGov) June 7, 2019 Has Gove blown his chance of becoming Prime Minister? I’m still reeling from the news that broke late on Friday night that Michael Gove admitted doing cocaine in his previous career as a journalist. Team Gove would also be reeling when reading that polling from YouGov…

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It was exactly two years ago today that Brexit, if it happens, inexorably changed

It was exactly two years ago today that Brexit, if it happens, inexorably changed

Video: The moment the 2017 exit poll was announced When the history of Brexit is written I suspect the 8th of June 2017 will be seen as the most momentous day in Brexit history, even more so than June 23rd 2016. The moment Mrs May lost David Cameron’s majority might be the seen as the moment the Brexit mandate was superseded by those opposed to a No Deal Brexit, indeed Labour’s manifesto was explicit in that, nor did it commit…

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House games: Where Dragons fly and swords shimmer

House games: Where Dragons fly and swords shimmer

Welcome to a very real fantasy Season 3: Episode 23/26 Violence and turmoil stalked the land. The old queen was not yet dead though she might as well have been. Her demise had been long, inglorious and inevitable, and yet that very inevitability gave her stubborn fight against it a redeeming air. It might have done little for her kingdom save stave off civil war for a few months but it had at least done that, as rival armies massed…

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Some analysis of the Tory leadership race and why the hardline No Deal Brexiteers might end up struggling in the MP stage of voting

Some analysis of the Tory leadership race and why the hardline No Deal Brexiteers might end up struggling in the MP stage of voting

Friday leadership race update (using @GuidoFawkes totals): Johnson 45Gove 30Hunt 27Raab 22 Javid 16Hancock 12Harper 6McVey 5Stewart 5Leadsom 3Gyimah 3 — Dom Walsh (@DomWalsh13) June 7, 2019 Here's how the support for the different candidates stacks up according to voting record on the deal. As a whole, rebels breaking heavily for Johnson and Raab – but Johnson is also doing well with pro-deal MPs, especially junior ministers: pic.twitter.com/ltbAZS4gbI — Dom Walsh (@DomWalsh13) June 7, 2019 174 MPs have declared; 139…

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The Peterborough Chronicle. About that by-election

The Peterborough Chronicle. About that by-election

Twitter, are we not going to spend the day using Peterborough to share dodgy maths & bar charts like we did after the European elections? If so then it's … Leave 51%Remain 46% Are we not doing that? No? How come?Oh. pic.twitter.com/ZPjmtoXYOi — Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) June 7, 2019 fwiw, the Brexit Party didn't do that great in the Euro elections in Peterborough compared to the local 2016 Leave vote Peterborough was BXP's 54th weakest relative performance out of 334…

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