We’re precisely six months away from the Queen dissolving parliament, at which point the 2015 election campaign will be officially under way. MPs are due to sit in the House…
Lord Ashcroft’s latest poll of Liberal Democrat battleground constituencies suggests I may need to revise my classification of the six species of Lib Dem MPs. His findings point to the…
A poll by YouGov published last Sunday at the start of Labour’s party conference put the party on 36%. Today’s YouGov poll, published the Sunday after Labour’s party conference, puts…
1. This is not going to be a duplicate of Clacton. For one thing, as Mark Wallace says on the ConservativeHome website, “Reckless is no Carswell”. He does not have…
All of seats up for grabs in this week’s council by-elections changed hands. The Tories took one from the Lib Dems – but the Lib Dems took two from the…
A fortnight today, voters go to the polls in the Clacton and Heywood & Middleton by-elections. Both contests have fallen out of the national headlines during the past few weeks,…
I’ve previously described Scotland as Labour’s red wedge, and a place where only one party is likely to make gains at the general election. But the referendum has changed all…
The East Midlands is going to play a key role in the outcome of the election. Over a third of its constituencies are marginals, of which almost half have majorities…
Despite most eyes being on Scotland these past weeks, pollsters have kept trotting out their regular snapshots of voting intention at the general election. And their findings have confirmed that…
More so than usual, this week’s council by-elections were overshadowed by events elsewhere. In their own humble way they had a few interesting stories to tell, however. Labour was the…
