This week’s Euratom row does not bode well for the year ahead

This week’s Euratom row does not bode well for the year ahead

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Brexit will obsess the political class and estrange the public In a week’s time, our MPs will have packed up for the Summer recess and will be settling down to their traditional pass-times of making pleasantries at constituency events, exposing bad taste in casual dress, and long-distance plotting. By the time they return on a full-time basis (they pop back for a week in September before conference season), more than a quarter of the time set aside for Britain’s Brexit…

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The unofficial Tory leadership contest is getting vicious with all sorts of briefings and smears flying about

The unofficial Tory leadership contest is getting vicious with all sorts of briefings and smears flying about

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Ally of David Davis is spreading rumours Boris Johnson slept with Theresa May’s aide during campaign https://t.co/7ltka8PGd8 — Sun Politics (@SunPolitics) July 14, 2017 Saturday's SUN: "Even A Woman Can Do That" #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/hBSsCQRKBZ — Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) July 14, 2017 Massive kudos to @JGForsyth, who reveals Hammond's comments in his Sun column tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/ZBc0cxKQcS — Kevin Schofield (@KevinASchofield) July 14, 2017 It might be time for the Tories to ditch leadership contests and bring back the magic circle….

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Two thirds of Britons want other parties included in the Brexit negotiations

Two thirds of Britons want other parties included in the Brexit negotiations

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YouGov has published some polling on whether other parties should be involved in the Brexit negotiations, they found Following the results of last month’s general election the prospect of Labour negotiating Brexit has become much more realistic, and not just because the Conservatives may lose power before long. Having campaigned on the basis that a large majority would strengthen Britain’s negotiating position, the Tories’ failure to win a Commons majority prompted call from within the party to bring other parties into negotiations….

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What the voters recall about the general election campaign

What the voters recall about the general election campaign

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YouGov have published some findings about what the voters remember about the campaign, they find that The Conservatives’ “bad” campaign was by the memory that stuck most in the mind of the public, at 23%. It was particulary high among Tory voters, at 27%, although it was still by far the most common answer given by Lib Dem (24%) and Labour voters (20%) too. It will doubtless provide cold comfort to Conservative sloganeers that the phrase “strong and stable” was the second…

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This is why you should be laying Boris as next Tory leader/PM

This is why you should be laying Boris as next Tory leader/PM

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Video: Boris Johnson being by Eddie Mair a few years ago, the interview did not go well for Boris. The Spectator have a great piece by James Forsyth about the next Tory leadership contest Boris, though, has had it even worse than most frontrunners. His problem is that there are not one but four groups who have it in for him. The Cameron/Osborne gang will never forgive him for ending the career of both their king and their dauphin, and…

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If or when Theresa May is replaced her successor shouldn’t hold a snap election (or even think about it)

If or when Theresa May is replaced her successor shouldn’t hold a snap election (or even think about it)

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Mrs May has probably ended any talk of or actual snap elections in the future by her successors The last ten years in British politics have been the most dramatic ten years I can recall in peace time. We’ve had, inter alia, the great financial crisis, the coalition government, the Scottish Independence referendum, the SNP tsunami, the Lib Dem wipe out of 2015, which saw David Cameron become the only Tory to win a majority in the last 25 years,…

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New PB/Polling Matters podcast: Support for a 2nd Brexit vote grows (plus THOSE Trump emails)

New PB/Polling Matters podcast: Support for a 2nd Brexit vote grows (plus THOSE Trump emails)

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On this week’s podcast Keiran is joined once more by US political analyst Jon-Christopher Bua. Keiran and JC discuss the political fallout in the States following scandalous revelations from emails. However, this time they are not Clinton emails but those of Donald Trump Jr. Keiran and JC also discuss what Corbyn’s surge might mean for US politics in the future and why America doesn’t have universal healthcare even though some polls suggest that the concept is more popular than you…

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