Tory lead falls to just 2 points.
Latest poll (Sunday Times/YouGov): Labour nine seats short of a majority.
"Gordon Brown on course to win election" is a headline almost no one would have expected to see at this stage of the electoral cycle. But today's YouGov poll confirms what a terrible start the Conservatives have made to their campaign. It puts the Tories on 37 per ... read more
YouGov launches daily tracker as poll puts Labour 9 points behind the Tories.
Get ready for the political weather to become even more determined by polls. YouGov has launched its daily tracker in the Sun, with polls initially published from Tuesday to Friday. This will rise to seven days a week for the final four weeks before polling day.
You may remember that YouGov experimented with a tracker during conference season last year. What was remarkable then was how much the polls fluctuated ... read more
Eric Pickles writes letter to David Wright over "scum-sucking pigs" comment.
Oh dear. The row over David Wright's Twitter outburst goes on. The Labour whip and MP for Telford has been on BBC Radio Shropshire to reiterate his defence -- which is that he didn't write the offensive tweet at all. Paul Waugh quotes him as saying:
I put up on Twitter a message linked to Barack Obama's comment in the presidential race last year about conservative policy, which is: ... read more
How to avoid telephone tactics in the run-up to the general election.
While you may seek cheap thrills from telling political campaigners exactly what you think of their parties, you've got no such capacity when you're hit with a so-called "robocall".
The Labour Party found itself in hot water recently when the Information Commissioner's Office said it had breached privacy rules by making unsolicited automated "robocalls" -- voiced by the Coronation Street star Liz Dawn -- to 495,000 people. But the Lib ... read more
It is possible, but unlikely, that Gordon Brown will call a snap election.
Could we still be in line for an April election? Speculation rolls on.
An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph today showed the Conservatives on 39 per cent (down 1 point), Labour on 30 per cent, and the Liberal Democrats up 2 to 20 per cent. This is the first ICM poll to show the Tories on less than 40 per cent since last June. Continuing the recurrent theme of ... read more
The next generation of Labour leaders cannot lean on the achievements of their predecessors.
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. As the baby boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, moves towards retirement, it's worth reflecting on what that means for British culture and politics.
The baby boomers have always had a clear enough identity. Politically, they fought great ideological battles. Culturally, they stood for rights and freedoms. The big question now concerns the generation that follows: ... read more
Two very different opinion polls yield ultimately similar results
Two very different opinion polls were published in the tabloids this morning.
A ComRes poll for the Sunday Mirror shows the Tories on 38 per cent, Labour on 29 per cent, and the Lib Dems on 19. This is a drop of 4 points for the Tories since the last ComRes poll and, if repeated at the general election, would leave the Conservatives five seats short of an overall majority.
As ... read more
Losing the election will mean a rebrand, but the cleansing process has already begun
It is a common narrative on the right that once Labour loses the next election there will be great bloodletting within the party. Labour will stumble around in the wilderness for years while failing to land any punches on the Conservatives.
But such a view fails to recognise the nature of dividing lines within the party. And, paradoxically, the recent attempted coups against Gordon Brown make such civil war even ... read more
The party loses 2 points as the Tories gain 1, but support for Brown has increased
The Times has published its monthly Populus poll, taken over the weekend. The headline figures were 28 per cent for Labour, 41 per cent for the Tories and 19 per cent for the Liberal Democrats.
This is 2 points down for Labour and 3 points up for the Tories on the last Populus poll, in early December, and appears to show that the plot against Gordon Brown by Patricia ... read more
Peter Watt's new book gives further evidence of disunity in Brown's government -- but why now?
Another day, another former Labour insider confessing their true feelings about Gordon Brown . . . and in the process potentially damaging what election hopes there are left for the party.
The Mail on Sunday today dedicates six pages to its first extract from Inside Out: My Story of Betrayal and Cowardice at the Heart of New Labour, a book by the former general secretary of the Labour Party Peter ... read more
The latest polls show voter disillusionment, and support for the Tories coming mainly from the rich
It's easy to spin numbers: pick and choose the figures and, bang, you have a news story from the latest poll.
But the overwhelming picture from the polls we have seen over the past few days (and weeks) is that the general public is not particularly enthused about either party. An Ipsos/MORI poll for the Observer at the weekend put the Conservatives on 43 per cent and Labour on 26 ... read more
For shame! Labour should be wholeheartedly and unequivocally supporting both strikes, or else removing "labour" from the party name. Or should I say "brand"?
From DK, 21 March 08:58
I'm sick and tired of the way Unite are portrayed in the media. British Airways made over 900 million pound profit in the 2 or 3 years preceding the current crisis. Yes British Airways is in need...
From Bobby_1, 21 March 00:21
@Dave123. I like how you blame Scottish people for the troubles of England. I am Scottish and for over 300 years we have patronised and treated like second class citizens in our country, largely by...
From jeremiah, 20 March 23:09
Should public spending be cut this year?
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