Another batch of opinion polls from marginal seats are due on Tuesday, once again courtesy of Lord Ashcroft. This time he’s surveyed the state of play in Liberal Democrat-Labour battlegrounds….
The Fabian Society has published a pamphlet called Labour’s Next Majority: A Constituency Guide. It’s written by the society’s deputy general secretary Marcus Roberts, and contains ideas and tactics to…
…is looking for a new incumbent. Joe Benton, Labour MP for Bootle since 1990, has announced he is stepping down next year. Benton was born in 1933, and is one…
This week’s local by-elections were both tidying-up exercises following last month’s nationwide contests. Neither result has altered the balance of power on the councils in question. But in both cases…
Tory backbenchers are playing the Ukip card again. Certain members of the party have been doing this for a year or so now, sometimes advocating an electoral pact, sometimes endorsing…
Survation has published the results of a poll it carried out on behalf of the RMT union in four “commuter” constituencies on the outskirts of London. None of the four…
George Osborne was in Manchester yesterday, dangling goodies in front of the region’s bigwigs and noting pointedly that he is only the second chancellor of the exchequer in history to…
