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

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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

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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 The moment Mrs May lost David Cameron’s majority might be the seen as the moment the Brexit mandate was superseded by those opposed to a No Deal Brexit, indeed Labour’s manifesto was explicit in that, nor did it commit…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

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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

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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

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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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There’s no automaticity that the next Tory leader becomes Prime Minister

There’s no automaticity that the next Tory leader becomes Prime Minister

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Why Mrs May could end up remaining Prime Minister a lot longer than we think The Guardian reports Boris Johnson could avoid facing an immediate confidence vote in his premiership if he becomes Conservative leader, as ministers are considering whether to send MPs home early for their summer break before the new prime minister is announced. Mel Stride, the new leader of the House of Commons, aroused suspicions that the Conservatives are plotting to put off a confidence vote for their…

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