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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Alastair Campbell has made a Vlog on the TV debates, why the hype doesn't matter and why Gordon's substance will shine through. UPDATE: Watch Cameron losing his rag in PMQs. I increasingly dislike watching PMQs on a Wednesday. The paper waving gamesmanship and jeering should have no place in a discussion as serious as Defence spending, when the country is fighting war and soldiers are dying. Really, it should have no place at all...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 As Chancellor Alistair Darling announced that the Budget will be unveiled in two weeks' time, on March 24th, Gordon Brown gave a speech to Thomson Reuters in which he detailed government action to reduce the effects of the recession and the plans for the recovery - and said the budget will focus on "protecting and advancing the recovery". Drawing a new dividing line with the Tories, the PM also said: "Our opponents build their policy...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling will settle on the date of the budget today - thought to be March 24th. * In a major speech on the economy this morning, the PM will say the UK is now "weathering the storm" of economic downturn, but that now is "no time to turn back". * The old party politics is not fit for the hour, the Guardian leader says. * As the YouGov Tracking poll...
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By Stephen Gummer The Howard League for Penal Reform’s latest campaign, Take Action 2010, is launching with the 2010 general election in mind. Prison numbers have more than doubled since the mid-1990s and yet crime remains a major public concern. We believe now is the time to campaign for a change in direction and encourage people to embrace our vision of "less crime, safer communities, fewer people in prison". The principle aim of our campaign is to get the public...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Labour and the Tories are "neck and neck" in the race to win key marginal seats, a new poll finds. * This graphic has all the important numbers... * Brown the Great Survivor: No one can survive in UK politics as long as Brown without possessing epic strengths, writes Steve Richards. * George W. Bush has made a direct plea to David Cameron to support the Northern Ireland peace process, amid concern in the...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Labour and the Tories are "neck and neck" the the key marginal seats, according to a new Populus poll in tomorrow's Times. The paper says: "The poll targeted 100 Labour-held seats where the Tories came second at the last general election and which are 50 to 149 in their list of targets. The poll excluded the 50 easiest seats for the Tories but included those the party needs to win for an overall majority....
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By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood If you spend a lot of your time phone canvassing - and I spend so much of my time doing it that I now find it difficult to ask a question over the phone without using the phrase "on a scale of 0 to 5..." - you might have heard: * a young person saying "...no, no I'm not going to vote. I'm really not interested." * an older woman saying "What is it, politics? I'll get...
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By Sophie Elmhirst Did she or didn’t she? She didn’t! Well that was all over pretty quickly. A front page let-down for the Mail, a national scandal averted, yet another opportunity for a Tory front-bencher to cavort red-faced on the telly, emitting embarrassed statements in the hope that he will once again be invited round for Sunday lunch at the Camerons'. Samantha Cameron – SamCam to her tabloid fans, AmDram to her detractors – did not in fact vote Labour....
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By Lisa Ansell / @slummymummy So, a general election is on its way. A general election which comes on the back of major worldwide economic collapse, and two divisive conflicts in the Middle East - conflicts that have long term consequences for all of us, and have raised major questions about how our democracy works. A general election where the victors are likely to make decisions about wide ranging public service cuts, and an election in a climate where political...
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By Darrell Goodliffe The opinion polls show that people are taking a long, hard look at the Conservatives and not particularly liking what they see. At the next general election people will have a clear choice between a Conservative Party that is selling a ‘Back to the Future’ program as ‘change’ and a Labour Party that, despite aspects of its record, remains a progressive force. Progressives that doubt that should look at the training Conservative candidates receive at their "madrasa"...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Another poll for tomorrow's papers, the YouGov daily tracker, apparently has: Con 38 (nc), Lab 33 (+1), LD 17 (nc). Translated to a general election on a uniform swing, that would also result in a hung parliament, with Labour on 298 seats to the Tories 284, and Labour 28 seats short of a working majority. A new ICM poll for tomorrow's News of the World shows the Tories back up three points to 40%,...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 With the election now (presumably) just 60 days away, campaigning on the doorsteps is ramping up - thousands of Labour activists are out this weekend speaking to people about their local and national concerns. As you're on the doorstep over the next few weeks, why not wear your colours with pride with one of LabourList's Change We Choose t-shirts drawing on the PM's speech from Labour conference in October? We've got hold of a second...
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By Ceri Goddard For all the little detour issues that this election has thrown up - Airbrushgate, Biscuitgate, Non-dom Donorgate – poll after poll gives new life to Bill Clinton’s line "it’s the economy, stupid". The economy, the recession, the recovery are the issues of this election. But it worries me that we seem to have jumped straight to a position where we’re blindly accepting cuts will happen and buying into a simplistic debate about timing. Where was the debate...
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By Keith Moran Michael Gove used his Newsnight interview on March 1st to turn up the heat on the BBC. He demanded the corporation spend just as much time questioning Labour and Liberal politicians about their wealthy donors' tax affairs, after Lord Ashcroft finally confirmed what most suspected, that he is indeed a "non-dom". Gove's sensitivity reveals just how much the Tories feel unfairly treated, by a media seemingly obsessed with the tax status of the former Belize Ambassador to...
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