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…

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…

Lord Ashcroft published his latest crop of constituency polls yesterday. They were from a selection of seats in the Tory-Labour battleground, as I previewed at the start of the week….

We’re due another batch of constituency polls this week from Lord Ashcroft. He hasn’t said precisely which seats he’s surveyed, or even when he’ll be releasing his data. All we…

The news that the former first minister of Scotland is standing as a candidate in the general election was not unexpected. Neither was the constituency of Gordon a surprise. It…

If either Labour or the Conservatives need to form a “grand coalition” to take power after the election, the parties of Northern Ireland may suddenly find themselves kingmakers. The Tories…

I made the point a few days ago that, for all the attention being rightly focused on Ukip, the Greens and the SNP, it’s nonetheless still the case that the…

Jeremy Browne’s decision not to stand for re-election as Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton Deane has probably turned his seat into a near-certain gain for the Tories. His majority of…

Come with me into a parallel universe, where most of the events of the past four-and-half years have not happened, a general election is approaching, and the Liberal Democrats are…

Befitting a former leading lady of stage and screen, Glenda Jackson’s victory in the seat of Hampstead & Kilburn at the 2010 general election was one of the most dramatic…