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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A poll for tomorrow's Observer has some stunning results, with the Tories' support collapsing from 43% last month to 37%, and Labour's increasing by 5 points to 31%. The Ipsos-Mori poll has the gap between the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Another new poll for today's Guardian shows the Tories slipping two points and Labour gaining two - and has the Tory lead now down to 9 points. The Lib Dems are down a point on 18%. It's the first Guardian/ICM…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft ConservativeHome are asking how the Conservatives should address Labour's claim that they plan to put up VAT. As Guido Fawkes summarises: "[Tim Montgomerie] makes five suggestions: admit VAT will rise to 20%…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Tony Blair's justification for invading Iraq will come under intensely renewed scrutiny this weekend, after the Guardian today published the important headline Blair: I would have invaded Iraq anyway. Speaking…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The newspapers are largely unimpressed with Alistair Darling's PBR yesterday. The Times led with the headline "Reality postponed", and said: "As economics this is a miserable choice, and it does not work much…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 22:30 UPDATE: The Guardian is now reporting that the Tobin tax is also likely to be announced in tomorrow's PBR. Alistair Darling is likely to announce a special one off windfall tax on bankers' bonuses in…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On the day the Fabian Society launches its Solidarity Society report - two years in the making - one of its authors, Tim Horton, has written to David Cameron challenging him to speak to the Fabians about…
By Paul Richards Britain's welfare services are about to be overwhelmed by an epidemic of loneliness, anxiety and social isolation, according to a new report out this morning by the Young Foundation, and sponsored by the Big Lottery Fund…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A new ICM poll for tomorrow's Telegraph shows the recent Tory slipping has stuck - but that Labour have failed to take full advantage. The poll shows the Tories down two points on 40%, with Labour unchanged on…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I was in a meeting during PMQs today - hence no LiveChat this week - but I've just watched the recording and I have to say the Prime Minister looks like a man emboldened. The PM largely dominated the…
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB Barely a week into the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, two ex-mandarins' evidence has pretty definitively acquitted Tony Blair of one of the gravest charges against him, and convicted him of another. In the testimony by…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In a YouGov poll for yesterday's Telegraph, Labour continued its trend of slightly improved numbers, again gaining an overall net increase on the Tories of four points. The poll follows other recent…
