I’d feel a lot more comfortable about the Brexit negotiations if Osborne was playing a key role

I’d feel a lot more comfortable about the Brexit negotiations if Osborne was playing a key role

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Beside him May & her team are political pygmies The swift way in which Angela Merkel has undermined Theresa May’s Article 50 invocation plan underlines how critical it is that Team GB has the very best team in the coming two years. That the German Chancellor should so attack May’s Brexit negotiation plan within four hours shows how much she needs a highly skilled political team at her side. A politically astute PM, advised by a politically competent Foreign Secretary,…

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For the record where BREXIT opinion stood on Article 50 day

For the record where BREXIT opinion stood on Article 50 day

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YouGov’s tracker continues to show little movement Brexit opinion – the party supporter splits Brexit view by socio-economic grouping It’s top of the Issues Index as well BREXIT the top issue concerning the country in latest @IpsosMORI Issues index pic.twitter.com/68lmErZt7W — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 29, 2017

Welcome to Article 50 day as the UK steps into the unknown

Welcome to Article 50 day as the UK steps into the unknown

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https://twitter.com/JananGanesh/status/846863305218183169 https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/846830241075093504 The big day arrives So we are here and Theresa May will meet her self imposed target of formally invoking the extraction process from the EU before the end of March. The signed letter invoking Article 50 will be delivered to the president of the EU in Brussels in a few hours. At home Mrs May is said to be planning to call on the nation to unite behind her and the government as it goes about the…

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If indeed GfK is part of a conspiracy against Corbyn then how come other pollsters have similar numbers?

If indeed GfK is part of a conspiracy against Corbyn then how come other pollsters have similar numbers?

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There’s a fierce attack in the Canary on GfK and its research director known well to PBers, Kieran Pedley. The chart says it all and shows all three sets of published leader ratings in March. And you know what – all the numbers are very close – the Canary favourite Corbyn is doing appallingly however you look at the numbers. So if there is a conspiracy against Labour’s bed-blocker leader then Opinium and Ipsos MORI are involed as well. The…

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Remember when the BBC’s Woman’s Hour asked David Cameron and David Davis what sort of underpants they preferred?

Remember when the BBC’s Woman’s Hour asked David Cameron and David Davis what sort of underpants they preferred?

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With all the fuss today about the Daily Mail’s “legs” front page let us not forget that the BBC can sometimes stray into what could be described as sexist. In November 2005 when David Cameron and David Davis were slugging it out for the Tory leadership the two of them appeared on Woman’s Hour and were asked at the end what sort of underpants they preferred. Another question was whether they preferred blondes or brunettes. David said the former while…

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At the last Gorton by-election the Tories, led by the visionary pro-European Ted Heath, came within 557 votes of victory

At the last Gorton by-election the Tories, led by the visionary pro-European Ted Heath, came within 557 votes of victory

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How will the BREXIT Tories do now? After their extraordinary gain of a by-election seat from LAB in Copeland we have heard very little of the blue team’s prospects in Manchester Gorton which is expected to take place on May 4th. Yet as the panel shows the Tories got very close to victory in the seat in 1967. No one is suggesting that the Tories have any chance whatsoever. The result from 1967 and what we know about the area…

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Gloomy polling news for Mr. Corbyn from the pollster that’s returning to GB politics after 12 year absence

Gloomy polling news for Mr. Corbyn from the pollster that’s returning to GB politics after 12 year absence

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A new poll conducted by GfK, the first published GB political survey since GE2005 when it operated as NOP, has  Corbyn as unpopular among Brits as Trump. GfK surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,938 GB adults between March 1st and March 15th, 2017 and found: Prime Minister Theresa May is more popular than the Government overall. 46% of GB adults approve of the job she is doing as Prime Minister (just 33% disapprove) while 40% approve of the way the…

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For first time since being sacked after getting GE2005 spot on NOP (now GfK) is back doing UK political polls

For first time since being sacked after getting GE2005 spot on NOP (now GfK) is back doing UK political polls

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UK Polling Report Welcome back – you’ve been missed One of the great jokes whenever people interested in polling have met in recent years is that is the person from NOP (now GfK) popping up to remind to remind us that the firm in its last published political poll got the outcome of the 2005 general election absolutely right. For whatever reason the Independent, which had commissioned the firm decided, to switch pollsters after 2005 and since then GfK has…

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