I must say I dislike the consistent pattern that any PM's advisers become a target for people frustrated with the PM but unwilling to attack directly. It happened with the advisers to Cameron, M… (View Post)

Lol. As an illustration of how electoral systems can fox voters, a friend who is a senior foreign affairs journalist told me that she'd voted 1. Khan 2. The rejoin-EU candidate, as she likes Kha… (View Post)

I think the personal leads are down to name recognition - lots of people still have no clear opinion about Starmer. Having said I thought Survation was an outlier, it seems not! Anecdata: did a lot o… (View Post)

We have a local case in Godalming where the LibDems had a private deal with Labour to each stand down in one division in the town. The LDs reneged on the deal and stood in both (to be fair their curr… (View Post)

It was 11,300 issued last time, from an electorate of 70,000. 9,500 (84%!) out of 41,000 (57% turnout) actually voted (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/postal_ballot_counts_11#incoming-1512683)… (View Post)