What better front pages for TMay on the day of the big local elections

What better front pages for TMay on the day of the big local elections

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She  comes over as decisive firm and tough The conventional wisdom is that you don’t want negative stories about your party to be making the headlines on the day of any elections. Everything is about turnout, particularly with the locals, and all efforts should be made to ensure that your base and your activists are out there enthusiastically going to the polls and getting out the vote. So I just wonder whether the very public sacking Gavin Williamson yesterday evening…

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George Galloway wants to be the Brexit candidate in Peterborough and threatens to run an as indy if he isn’t

George Galloway wants to be the Brexit candidate in Peterborough and threatens to run an as indy if he isn’t

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https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1123685667236732928 Whoever he stands for Galloway will be a formidable opponent This could be tricky for Farage because Galloway is no slouch when it comes to by-elections and has a far better record here than the Brexit Party leader. In 2012 in Bradford West he was 33/1 in the betting when he put himself forward in the rock solid safe Labour seat. Even on the day you could have got him at 4/1. As it turned out Galloway took the…

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The money goes on a 78 year old to take on a 74 year old at WH2020

The money goes on a 78 year old to take on a 74 year old at WH2020

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Betdata.io chart of movement on the Betfair exchange I remain to be convinced by Biden With interest in Brexit itself having subsided for the moment and with the Euro elections not taking place for another three weeks the top betting markets, in terms of volume, at the moment are on the 2020 White House Race. The big question is who will the Democrats choose to take on Trump? Last week the former Obama vice president, Joe Biden, put his hat…

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On the eve of LE2019 Corbyn’s LAB appears as totally divided as TMay’s Tories

On the eve of LE2019 Corbyn’s LAB appears as totally divided as TMay’s Tories

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https://twitter.com/jameschappers/status/1123357647573520385 How’s this going to play out tomorrow? The Tweet above might or might not be accurate but it comes at a very tricky time on the eve of this years locals. Because this years elections do not include London it has attracted for less media coverage than you’d expect. This is not unusual. The political media is based at Westminster and is very London-centric. Generally the pattern has been that the timing of the locals are put back in…

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Why it’s going to be harder than many think to view the Euros as a 2nd Brexit referendum

Why it’s going to be harder than many think to view the Euros as a 2nd Brexit referendum

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There’s widespread confusion on where each party stands The above chart is from some new polling issued by YouGov this morning which tries to find out how voters view each party’s stance on brexit. Apart from Farage’s Brexit party some of the answers are quite extraordinary and suggest that the parties are not getting over their positions as strongly as they might be. Taking the Tories first just 37% of those polled thought it was Pro brexit with 24% being…

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