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Will the MiliD-MiliE outcome be a verdict on NuLab?
…are these headlines helpful to the younger brother? With voting in Labour’s election due to start on Wednesday two papers at the “quality” end of the market have front pages that are dominated by the...
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How long will the TB-GB psycho-drama plague Labour?
Daily Mail Is everything still being defined by the ex-leaders ? The big news for Labour as we move into September should be the start of voting in the first contested election for a leader since...
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So are you backing Gordon….?
DSK has now resigned as IMF head, and Hills have released their next IMF leader prices which are: Kemal Dervis, Turkey 5/2 Montek Singh Ahluwalia, India 5/1 Axel Weber, Germany 7/1 Tharman...
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Are we seeing the resurrection of Mr. Brown?
Is he blamed unfairly for Labour’s defeat? There’s a new book out by some of the main figures associated with Ipsos-MORI, Robert Worcester, Roger Mortimore, Paul Baines and Mark Gill, which seeks to...
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But what does this mean for today’s politics?
Will it have interest beyond political anoraks? Just looking at tomorrow Telegraph splash and reading the some of the documents from Brown camp that have been leaked I’m trying to work out what...
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Is all this about stopping Balls from over-throwing Miliband?
SkyNews What’s behind the “Brown plot” revelations? Those who’ve read the accounts of the Brown-Blair wars, particularly those by Andrew Rawnsley and Anthony Seldon, won’t find much to surprise them...
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Stand by for “Explosive revelations” from Alastair Darling
Is this going to make Miliband’s task much harder? According to Atul Hatwal of Labour Uncut there are about to be some explosive revelations in Alastair Darling’s upcoming memoir:- He writes:...
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Cameron’s MORI ratings now worse than Gordon Brown’s
Both the PM and Nick Clegg see 8 points drops Another poll, MORI, has EdM beating DC in leader ratings.Ed’s net rating is -16/Dave’s is -28/Clegg’s is -39 bit.ly/JXzzkh — Mike Smithson...
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Why did 308 LAB MPs ever give this man a coronation?
A reminder from five years ago Today’s appearance before the Leveson inquiry by Gordon Brown is a reminder of what to me was the most appalling mistake in modern politics – the decision by 308 Labour...
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On the 5th Anniversary of Blair’s exit from No. 10……
Would Labour still be in power if they’d stuck with Tony? Exactly five years ago today, June 27th 2007, was a pivotal point in British politics. It was the moment when the triple general election...
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Five years on from the election that never was
Today, is the fifth anniversary of Gordon Brown’s decision not to hold an election in the autumn of 2007. It was a very interesting time for anyone interested in politics or betting. We had a Labour...
View ArticleIt is questionable that Tony could have done what Gordon did and denied Dave...
Henry G Manson disputes Blair’s assertion that he’d have done better than Brown @ GE2010.bit.ly/16Boguz twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 5, 2013 Henry G Manson with a...
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May 7 2010: Cameron making his offer to the LDs On Friday I took part in a conference panel with Paul Staines and the respected city analyst, David Buik. He made a statement which we’ve heard before...
View Article3 days before he lost GE2010 voters in the marginals rated Gordon Brown as...
Leading on the economy isn't everything. See this from final Ipsos-MORI poll of marginals at GE2010 pic.twitter.com/W0n5k6yMyy — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 2, 2013 @ScotMac3 The same final...
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Let’s kill this myth once again. Cameron never had the chance of a minority...
May 11 2010 The Tories hadn’t won & there was need for Brown to step aside I’ve made this point before but Gord had all the cards in his hand on May 7th 2010. The Tories had failed to win a...
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The big problem with free TV licences for those 75+ is that a staggering one...
Gordon Brown’s 2001 exemption rule has a huge loophole which should never have been agreed From 1980-84 a big part my then job at the BBC was to deal with the PR and political issues relating to the...
View ArticleRemember the Saturday when the Telegraph and Sky News both declared that Alan...
With AV LAB elections don’t always go to plan Remember June 2007? So many Labour MPs had chickened out of doing other than nominate Brown for leader that there weren’t enough left for another...
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Donald Brind says: “Thanks Neil – now we need to hear from Gordon”
Brown is well-placed to deal with the Corbyn surge Shortly after Tony Blair was elected Labour leader in 1994 I bumped into my political hero Jack Jones at a book launch. What inspired me about Jones...
View ArticleAlmost all of LAB’s current problems stem from eight years ago today when...
The day an autumn 2007 vote was bottled Eight years today an event took place from which, I’d argue, all Labour’s trouble stem – the decision by the then PM to call off what were very advanced plans...
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