Conservatives largest party. Labour close behind. Less bad for the LibDems that some predict. UKIP win three seats. The SNP grab over 20.
Labour plans new taxes on your family home and your pension – and he and Balls would like to tax death too.
Plus: I have decided to prompt for UKIP when asking about voting intention; and are voters starting to feel the recovery?
A probe of a key question as the election approaches. How big are the spending reductions that each major party requires?
7.3. 25-35. 1992. And – last but not least – 9.
Their proposals were and remain unfair to the Greens and the Liberal Democrats – and indeed to everyone else.
Elevating FPTP to the status of a Tory principle would be a historical, and perhaps also a historic, mistake.
I launch today a new section of my website featuring an index of the 114 seats I have surveyed since last May.
They used Treasury calculations made in the same manner as those they’re now criticising.
The longer no party can gain no more than about a third of a vote, the louder the debate about changing the system will become.
CCHQ is not giving up on the prospect of snatching seats off Labour and LibDems, though there is a fly in the ointment…
The LibDems have long squeezed votes from the two bigger parties. Labour has squeezed LibDem ones in the polls. Will the Conservatives now gain too?
Plus: My Big Fat New Wedding. An invitation to Roger Bird. And: Happy New Year to you all. P.S: Here is my, er, prediction success rate for last year.
Health is a key issue at local as well as national level, and 11 of these troubled institutions are in Conservative-held seats.
‘Privatisation’ is now being used as a lazy pejorative to describe any injection of much-needed competition into health and other services.