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The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant story)

• Lib Dems announce “The 2014 local and European elections are hugely important, so I’m putting one of our best campaigners in charge – Tim Farron.”
• Seven questions the Conservative Party needs to answer by the 33/1 outsider Adam Afriyie
• Ireland to become the  first EU country to ban cigarette branding
• These students would have needed the first electricity detective, Sherlock Ohms to help them answer an unanswerable question on their exam.
• Tim Stanley asks the same question that’s been bugging me about David Cameron’s holiday.
• The Tories are playing raucous politics with spending cuts – again
• The ComRes data tables are out for their poll for Open Europe
• Former UKIP leader Alan Sked, writes We need a Eurosceptic party of the centre left, I left Ukip, the party I founded, when it became a magnet for bigots. But what happened to leftwing opposition to the EU?
• PB poster SeanT pokes the hornets’ nest over at the telegraph blogs, where you will learn that “Weasels are just completely kinkyboots” among other things.

 

UPDATE – New ComRes phone poll out for the Independent.

As we can see both two major parties take a hit, whilst UKIP go up, it is Labour’s lowest lead with ComRes since September 2012.

The lead of 4% makes Ipsos-Mori’s poll showing Labour a lead of 3% less of an outlier.

The fieldwork was Friday to Sunday, so over the bank holiday weekend.

 

 

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 Note: Mike Smithson is currently on holiday