Suddenly the polls and the betting move away from Donald Trump
Check out the above Fox News report How the betting has moved sharply away from. Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/dfYCZZdeJX — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 25, 2015
Jeremy Corbyn needs saving from his “friendsâ€
This week’s column from Don Brind Jeremy Corbyn has done remarkably well in attracting MPs into the big tent, which his closest ally John McDonnell says he wants to inhabit. Although the leadership failed to recruit some of the front benchers they wanted to keep there has been none of the flouncing out that Polly Toynbee warned against. There has been a search for common ground rather than the highlighting differences – an approach I urged in a previous post….
Polling shows the Labour Party brand in big trouble
This Thursday’s poll by Ipsos Mori is bad for Jeremy Corbyn but even worse for Labour, says Keiran Pedley. Today’s poll looked at public perceptions of Jeremy Corbyn and David Cameron and the Labour and Conservative Party brands in detail. In addition to voting intention and asking respondents which of Cameron or Corbyn would make the ‘most capable Prime Minister’, the poll also listed a series of statements and asked which of them applied to each party and their leaders….
UPDATE Corbyn becomes first LAB leader EVER to record negative ratings in his opening Ipsos MORI satisfaction ratings
Ipsos MORI/Standard poll on Cameron vs Corbyn http://t.co/Dx8eHfXtGU pic.twitter.com/TmBGxko6Dt — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 24, 2015 53% tell Ipsos Standard poll that DC "most capable PM" compared with 27% for Corbyn — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 24, 2015
“Call me Dave”: The Ashcroft revelations in the Mail appear to have run out of steam
Thursday's Daily Mail front page:UK drivers to sue VW for billions#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/gx01M70dY7 — Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 23, 2015 The “revelations” from Day 4 of the Daily Mail’s serialisation of Lord Ashcroft’s unofficial biography of Mr Cameron don’t quite have the potency of what we saw earlier in the week. There’s nothing on today’s front page that struck me as being a must read and interestingly the amount of space being allocated is declining. That’s the problem with serialisations…
New YouGov polling for the New Statesman shows the huge gap between Corbyn supporters and the voters LAB needs to attract
YouGov polling for New Statesman showing gap between views of Corbyn supporters & potential LAB voters pic.twitter.com/XMed4MZeS2 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 23, 2015 Peter Kellner has an analysis in tomorrow’s New Statesman which includes the polling featured above on the attitude on a range of matters by Corbyn supporters, current firm and weak LAB voters, and the target groups that the party needs to bring on board at a general election. Question by question the gap is massive. Those…
Farron’s speech was pretty well received but what a mountain his party has to climb
Reaction from leading commentators on final morning of LD conference I think that's as good as speech as I've ever heard from a Lib Dem leader. Passionate, personal and grown up where it needed to be. — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) September 23, 2015 Be honest, sensible Labour twitter people: how many of you are now daydreaming of Tim Farron as Labour leader? — James Kirkup (@jameskirkup) September 23, 2015 Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron calls on the Government to opt…
Damian McBride wonders why there’s been no official denial of the pig story from Team Dave
Ex-Brown spin doctor says Cameron's team made pig story worse by not issuing official denial http://t.co/TYiQixf8yt pic.twitter.com/EgS15hYuqf — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 23, 2015 There’s a fascinating critique in the Guardian this morning by Damian McBride on the way the Cameron team has dealt with the allegations being made by Lord Ashcroft, particularly the one about the pig. He argues strongly that they should have been a total an absolute denial of the story right at the very start and…