This week’s local by-elections were both tidying-up exercises following last month’s nationwide contests. Neither result has altered the balance of power on the councils in question. But in both cases…
Tory backbenchers are playing the Ukip card again. Certain members of the party have been doing this for a year or so now, sometimes advocating an electoral pact, sometimes endorsing…
Survation has published the results of a poll it carried out on behalf of the RMT union in four “commuter” constituencies on the outskirts of London. None of the four…
George Osborne was in Manchester yesterday, dangling goodies in front of the region’s bigwigs and noting pointedly that he is only the second chancellor of the exchequer in history to…
One of the reasons often trotted out for the Tories’ surprise win at the 1970 general election is the publication of some unexpectedly poor trade statistics in the week of…
First Jack Straw, then Peter Hain, now David Blunkett: the list of Labour big beasts stepping down at the 2015 general election has just got longer. Blunkett has been an…
What’s going to happen to Mike Hancock, former Liberal Democrat turned independent member of parliament for Portsmouth South? Plenty of people have been offering a view on what should happen…
Some cheer for the Conservatives last night: they made two gains in this week’s local council by-elections. The first was a seat on East Cambridgeshire district council, which the party…
Lord Ashcroft has published his survey of the state of the parties in 17 Liberal Democrat-Conservative marginals. While the overall trend is for a swing from the Lib Dems to…
I’ve spent a bit of time looking at marginal constituencies recently, but one I haven’t yet mentioned is the most marginal of them all. There’s a reason for that. It’s…
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