Labour’s Brighton exuberance over Corbyn isn’t supported by his leader ratings

Labour’s Brighton exuberance over Corbyn isn’t supported by his leader ratings

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Things have barely moved since June 8th Opinium – Leader Approval ratings From the David Cowling leader rating compilation. Opinium which asks on leader approval pic.twitter.com/H4eVHOc691 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 25, 2017 Ipsos-MORI – Leader Satisfaction Ratings David Cowling has just produced some interesting tables plotting party leader ratings change over 6 months. Ipsos-MORI Satisfaction pic.twitter.com/C4VJwXcoM4 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 25, 2017 The former BBC Political Research chief, David Cowling, has produced the above tables so we can…

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Nearly of third of current LAB voters not sure that Corbyn would make the best PM

Nearly of third of current LAB voters not sure that Corbyn would make the best PM

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How solid is Labour's vote? Nearly a third of their 2017 voters are not sure Jeremy Corbyn would make the best Prime Minister. #Lab17 pic.twitter.com/XiQaQCmQyf — Joe Twyman (@JoeTwyman) September 25, 2017 The soft under-belly of LAB support Labour’s leader might seem to have conquered all before him following the party’s unexpected performance at GE17 but quite a number current LAB supporters appears to have doubts about the man is now into his third year as party leader. In the…

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Remembering Mark Senior – poster on PB 2004-2017

Remembering Mark Senior – poster on PB 2004-2017

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Last week, a couple of days before the end of my holiday, we had the sad news that one of PB’s leading posters almost since the site started, Mark Senior, has died. Over nearly a decade and a half he became a key part of the site’s unique commenting community and although I never met him I am sure that others feel like I do that we know him from our interactions over such a long period. I’ve not been…

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I now have huge doubts about the political judgment of Philip Hammond

I now have huge doubts about the political judgment of Philip Hammond

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EXC: In small hours of election morning Phil Hammond texted Boris to say he would back him for leader — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) September 23, 2017 Hammond said he would back Boris to run a triumvirate with himself and David Davis to replace Theresa May on election night — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) September 23, 2017 Hammond leadership plan to replace May: he would run economy, DD would run Brexit, Boris would "run the shop" as front man. See Sunday Times…

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How the 2017 general election result would have looked under different voting systems

How the 2017 general election result would have looked under different voting systems

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If Jeremy Corbyn does become Prime Minister I expect electoral reform, as part of wider constitutional reform, will happen, without the need of plebiscites on the matter. Whilst Labour leaders do say in opposition they favour electoral reform but then ignore it when they are elected, like a brilliant thought during an orgasm, it gets lost in the ecstasy of ‘victory’. I think Corbyn will not do a Blair on the topic of electoral reform. The chart above, from the…

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Deadline 2021: the clock might (or might not) be reset but it is still ticking

Deadline 2021: the clock might (or might not) be reset but it is still ticking

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Cx_1HAf6k May’s Brexit concessions still deliberately risk a Crash Brexit So now we know what the longest cabinet meeting of the century achieved: everyone united around the proposition that if there’s a row to be had, it can wait. That’s as true of internal cabinet divisions as it is of the main UK-EU negotiations. At some point the crunch will come – but not yet. It was always extremely likely that the UK would ask for some form of transitional…

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