For the 2nd month running Corbyn tops the @IpsosMORI leader ratings pic.twitter.com/NzkQ5A1JZ1 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 25, 2016 Cameron has his 2nd worst month ever amongst CON voters in the Ipsos-MORI leader ratings pic.twitter.com/oCIHKtdjGD — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 25, 2016
This is about the total destruction of Dave’s opponents I was very struck last night by the Twreet from politics academic Professor Glen O’Hara on the first week of the referendum campaign. Cam + Osbo play high pressure game, high up the pitch. Put oppo under pressure, force them to make mistakes. That's what's happening now. — Glen O'Hara (@gsoh31) April 24, 2016 The reason OUT is so on the defensive at the moment is simply because of the force…
Alastair Meeks asks how could David Cameron deal with a party within a party? David Cameron has had a cabal of fierce critics on the Conservative backbenches conspiring against him almost since the moment he became party leader. In the new Parliament, the cabal has re-emerged and, emboldened by a small Conservative majority in the House of Commons, has periodically pounced to undermine their leadership’s plans on tax credit cuts, Sunday trading and benefit cuts, among other things. The referendum…
Imagine a UK EU In/Out Referendum with these two in The White House & Number 10 respectively. Pic by @GeneralBoles pic.twitter.com/MsAd7FZawl — TSE (@TSEofPB) April 24, 2016 Even if Remain wins in June, there may be future In/Out referendums and that should give Leave hope and worry Remain. One of the most interesting aspects of this referendum campaign is David Cameron ignoring Harold Wilson’s precedent of sitting out an In/Out EC/EU referendum. The reason for the breaking this precedent might…
IN now a 71% chance on Betfair pic.twitter.com/yra2X48d9U — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 23, 2016
The question is whether Brexit is needed to kick-start it Remember the government’s EU renegotiation? It was a big deal back in February when it was agreed after a marathon European Council summit and has been little heard of since. True, the five points do briefly appear in the government’s referendum leaflet but hardly any of the campaigning for or against membership has bothered to reference them. They are now essentially an irrelevance. To the extent that they are brought…
This week we welcomed back the Oxford Academic and Labour peer, Lord Stewart Wood, to look at what’s been going on in the big political stories on both sided of the Atlantic. Among the issues discussed are what Labour should do about Cameron’s attacks on its London mayoral candidate, the latest moves in the referendum polling and betting as well as where the White House race stands after New York. Keiran Pedley will be back in the presenter’s chair next…
“Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only dishonest advertising left.†(David Ogilvy, 1965) The last few weeks have proved him right. It’s been a free-for-all. Every claim more outlandish than the last. Every rebuttal more hyperbolic. Then last Thursday Vote Leave were appointed lead campaign, the two slogans BRITAIN STRONGER IN EUROPE and TAKE CONTROL were revealed and everyone settled down… REMAIN are now working with Adam and Eve/DDB. LEAVE have appointed several regional PR companies primarily to…