This is how short lived Cameron’s Europe “poll bounce” was

Another Tory MP’s campaign goes out in the wrong seat

Last month we reported how Tory MP David Burrowes had gone out doorknocking in the wrong constituency – and ended up at a Labour MP’s house. Now it’s been discovered that another Tory MP has a little trouble working out who he is supposed to be representing. Voters in Hammersmith recently contacted their MP, Labour’s Andy Slaughter, when they received campaign leaflets from Chelsea & Fulham MP Greg Hands. Slaughter promptly sent a letter to Hands, asking him to investigate the […]

Here’s what happens when you search David Cameron’s name on Twitter today

David Cameron’s desperate attempts to get out of debating Ed Miliband dominate today’s news, as his spin doctor Craig Oliver sends a petulant letter to broadcasters, telling them that the PM will only take part in one debate at the end of March – and only if the leaders of Labour, the Lib Dems, the Green Party, UKIP, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and maybe the DUP are all there too. Oliver’s huffy letter complains that the broadcasters have proved consistently willing […]

Jim Murphy says Ashcroft poll “bad news for Scottish Labour but great news for the Tories”

As we covered last night, yesterday’s Ashcroft polling showed Labour doing extremely badly in Scotland.   Of the five Labour seats polled north of the border, Ashcroft showed the party losing all but one – Jim Murphy’s seat East Renfrewshire. And the Scottish leader is only ahead by one point. Ashcroft also found Labour losing Kirkcaldy – the seat from which Gordon Brown is stepping down in May – where Labour were 50 points ahead of the SNP in 2010. […]

It’s official: Cameron is a coward

By Emma Burnell

David Cameron says that he wants to debate Ed Miliband. And we believe him right? I mean it’s not like him to be disingenuous. To say one thing and do the opposite hoping a disengaged public won’t notice. Just look at that promise he made about NHS reorganisation. Or his deep and lasting pre-election commitment to “green crap”. But it’s not as simple as all that. With a character as slippery as our eel of a Prime Minister it rarely […]

Blair donates to £1,000 to each of Labour’s 106 target seats

Recently it was reported that Tony Blair would be playing a role in Labour’s general election campaign. It’s still not clear if that will happen (indeed our recent LabourList survey and polling suggested that would be a bad idea) but the former Labour leader has made a significant donation to the party – backing each of Labour’s 106 candidates in target seats with £1,000 each. The Guardian reports Blair as saying, in a letter to candidates: I know how hard it […]