March 24, 2015
How parliament is preparing to pack up
At some point between 3pm and 5pm on Thursday afternoon, the 55th parliament of the United Kingdom will adjourn for the last time. Both chambers will be prorogued until Monday,…
March 23, 2015
Paddy Ashdown sounds like he’s still fighting the last election
Lord Ashdown made a speech a few days ago at the Liberal Democrats’ Scottish conference in which he more or less admitted that the only way the party are going…
March 22, 2015
How the TV debates will shape the campaign timetable
Now that the schedule for the leaders’ debates seems to have been settled*, the shape of the election campaign has become a bit more clear. We still have three live TV…
March 21, 2015
Latest by-election results: a lacklustre win for Labour
One solitary council by-election this week. It took place in the Rhyl South West ward of Denbighshire county council, and saw Labour easily hold the seat: The turnout was 20%,…
March 20, 2015
DUP-UU election pact: what could happen?
Despite spending much of the autumn of 2014 ruling out an election pact, the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionists have this week gone ahead and agreed just that….
March 19, 2015
What Budgets do to opinion polls
Can big, long speeches about economics made in the House of Commons on a weekday lunchtime ever pack enough punch to shift the mood of the entire nation? Of course…
March 18, 2015
Labour is holding its ground in the Tory marginals – for now
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….
March 17, 2015
There now follows an election broadcast on behalf of… how many parties?
It wasn’t that many elections ago that party political broadcasts were quite an event, with the main TV channels broadcasting them virtually simultaneously and audiences tuning in dutifully if unenthusiastically…
March 16, 2015
The Tory-Labour battleground revisited
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…
March 15, 2015
One (fairly) safe prediction about the result of the election
The Electoral Reform Society published a report a couple of days ago on the number of female MPs likely to be in the next parliament. It concluded that we could…
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