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Are the “forces of hell” where the story goes next?
Sky News Is this a cert for PMQs today? They are back at Westminster this week and at noon we’ll see one of the few remaining PMQs before the campaign starts. With the bullying allegations and the...
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Can Brown close down the “forces of hell” comment?
Or is this going to linger through the campaign? After last night’s Jeff Randall interview with Alistair Darling it was obvious that the “forces of hell” comment was going to be raised at PMQs....
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Do the debates mean these numbers are more important?
Q. “Is Brown/Cameron/Clegg doing well-badly as PM/CON leader/LD leader ……” 36-58% WELL:BADLY – BROWN 50-39% WELL:BADLY – CAMERON 42-28% WELL:BADLY – CLEGG Is this one of the consequences of the focus...
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Cameron hit most as all the leader ratings drop
“Is Brown/Cameron/Clegg doing well-badly as PM/CON leader/LD leader ..” “Well” “Badly“ +/- Brown 36% (36) 60% (58) -2% Cameron 48% (50) 44% (39) -7% Clegg 43% (42) 31% (28) -2% Are the Tories right to...
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Will Labour let a defeated Brown carry on?
BBC What this going to do to the leadership betting? A couple of month ago I started ploughing money on the post-December 31 2010 option in the Brown exit date betting after the PM had made comments...
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Could the Purples come to the aid of the Blues?
Will the big tactical move be from UKIP backers? All the talk about tactical voting seems to be about the Lib Dems with polling evidence starting to suggest that they split at least 3-2 in favour of a...
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Do leaders now matter more than policies?
Ipsos-MORI Does this mark a turning point? Whilst checking out the Ipsos-MORI website overnight I came across a fascinating paper on what the pollster describes as the “Presidentialisation’ of British...
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What’ll this do to the final week of the campaign?
Could opinion harden against a hung parliament? Both the Guardian and Telegraph lead on a civil service plan that would have Mr. Brown remaining at Number 10 in the case of a hung parliament. As the...
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Will Gord still make his Tuesday appointment?
Could the widening gap be giving him second thoughts? If indeed, as is being widely reported, Mr. Brown makes that short car journey from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning then it...
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Does this make a hung parliament LESS likely?
Do the resurgent yellows help Dave more than Gord? The main move in the betting in reaction to the debate has been an easing of the Tory overall majority prices – out from 1.74 at the start last night...
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So was Cameron the “Comeback Kid”?
Who won 2nd debate? ICM AR YouGov ComRes Populus Cameron 29% 32% 36% 30% 37% Clegg 33% 33% 32% 33% 36% Brown 29% 23% 29% 30% 27% UPDATED 0755 Clegg wins by three pollsters to two Clearly there will be...
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Brown-Cameron: What Lib Dem voters think
Are you satisfied/dissatisfied with the way Brown is doing his job..?” (MORI Apr 18) Satisfied Dissatisfied All questioned 35% 59% Lib Dem voters only 29% 65% Are you satisfied/dissatisfied with the...
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Can Marathon Man pull through in the end?
Or is it almost all over? To see more of Marf’s work check here.
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Has Clegg trumped Cameron’s ace?
SkyNews What does this do to “Vote Yellow get Brown”? In the eleven days since Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats emerged as a force at the first debate the blue team’s main line of attack has been “Vote...
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Did Gord and Nick go to the “wrong” universities?
Election Winning leader Alma mater 1945 Clement Attlee University of Oxford 1950 Clement Attlee University of Oxford 1951 Winston Churchill Non graduate 1955 Anthony Eden University of Oxford 1959...
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How will history judge this final act?
Telegraph The Telegraph has a story that I’m sure will be referred to time and time again when historians come to assess the Brown years. The report goes “…one of Brown’s final acts in the Downing...
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Mandy: Clegg wanted Brown’s scalp as price for coalition
But couldn’t we have guessed that anyway? Anybody watching ITV over the weekend could not have avoided the ads by the Times promoting their serialisation of Peter Mandelson’s new book. We were being...
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“Labour: F***ked, futile, and finished..”
SkyNews Will Mandy’s VAT revelation hurt his party? According to the SkyNews today’s extract in the Times from has this description of a general election planning meeting from last October. ” …Harriet...
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Is this just becoming a big distraction?
The Mandy serialisation – Day 3 On a day when the big political news could have been the parliamentary battles and votes on the budget VAT increases it’s the Mandy book serialisation in the Times...
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What will the Milibands do about Gordon?
Should they back him for International Development Secretary? According to Guido Gordon Brown is taking soundings about making a return to the Labour front bench as Shadow International Development...
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