Thursday’s by-elections in Clacton and Heywood & Middleton, plus the forthcoming as-yet-unscheduled contest in Rochester & Strood, will bring the total number of by-elections in this parliament to 21. It’s…
Only one of this week’s seven council by-elections saw a seat change hands – and it was a gain by Ukip. The party narrowly won a seat from Labour on…
Last week I wondered why there had been no polls conducted in Heywood & Middleton ahead of the by-election on 9 October. Well, now one has been carried out by…
The New Statesman’s political editor George Eaton tweeted on Tuesday that there were “lots [of people] at the Tory conference encouraged by the potential for the SNP to take Scottish…
After a quiet couple of months, the polling averages for all main parties are on the move – and it’s Ukip alone that has reason to be cheerful. The party…
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…
UK elections 2015 