If you take an average of all the latest predictions of the election result, the numbers remain tipped ever so slightly in Labour’s favour. By lining up the parties who would…
The number of constituencies receiving their first visit from one of the main party leaders hasn’t risen quite so fast this week. It’s not that Cameron and co haven’t been out…
A total of 70 polls have been published since the formal start of the election campaign on 30 March. The Tories have been ahead in 26 of them; Labour ahead…
“Nobody knows who’ll be prime minister by the end of next week,” said Justin Webb at the start of the Today programme on Radio 4 yesterday. Actually, we do: it…
Of all the things not likely to take place at this election (an ever-increasing list including a majority government, a surge for Ukip, gains by the Lib Dems and a…
Over the course of the past year I’ve returned several times to the fortunes of the Liberal Democrats, reporting among other things on their strange death, their dicey dozen, their…
This election campaign looks like it’s going to tease us right to the end. The poll of polls has reverted almost exactly to the position it was in one month…
One of the most ill-informed comments I’ve heard from a politician in recent months came courtesy of the Labour MP Frank Field. In the aftermath of the Heywood & Middleton by-election, he…
Over 100 constituencies have now had the pleasure of a visit from one of the four main party leaders. Almost half of those visits have been in the shape of…
Precisely how much is unclear about the outcome of the general election should be clear by early the following morning. Almost all of the results are due to be declared by…
UK elections 2015 