April 23, 2015
Two weeks to go
I’ve seen little in the campaign so far to convince me that the election result is going to be vastly different to the one I predicted earlier this month. I…
I’ve seen little in the campaign so far to convince me that the election result is going to be vastly different to the one I predicted earlier this month. I…
It’s a stubborn and slightly unfashionable thing to say, but I continue to believe there will be Labour MPs in Scotland after 7 May. And not just one or two….
The highest turnout in any general election of the past half-century was in February 1974: a contest that resulted in a hung parliament and a period of minority government. Almost…
Two polls at the weekend illustrated starkly the absence of consistency among individual snapshots of opinion at this election. One, carried out by Opinium for the Observer, put the Tories…
We’re well over halfway through the campaign, yet one of the two people who could be prime minister after 7 May hasn’t exactly been criss-crossing the nation taking his case…
Thursday’s council by-election in Cumbria was almost certainly the last of its kind we’ll see before polling day. No more by-elections are scheduled between now and 7 May. The steady drip of…
We’ve been spoiled in this election with the amount and frequency of opinion polls available to dissect and debate, particularly constituency polls published by Lord Ashcroft. But there are some seats that…
24. That used to be the kind of number of Conservative seats Labour needed to win at the election to ensure it ended up the largest party in parliament. But…
Nick Clegg’s visit earlier this week to the constituency of Maidstone & the Weald, on account of it being one his party’s “top targets”, led me to wonder whether the Lib…
A bit more digging into the candidate list for the election reveals that the most hotly-contested seat is set to be none other than Uxbridge & South Ruislip, where Boris…