Yes, Portillo was intensely disliked by most non-Tories. At that time he was on the right of the party, favoured by people like Tebbit, and had quite an unpleasant streak. It was later that he mellow… (View Post)

For a long time, Opinium tended to have the smallest Labour leads because of its methodology. On 24 May, after the GE was called, they had Labour on a 14pp lead. So this lead of 20 looks pretty signi… (View Post)

Yes, it's absolutely hilarious - it doesn't even approach being a lukewarm endorsement of Labour. It screams: "We hate Labour but they're going to win, sadly". My favourite b… (View Post)

Yes - any swingback is helping the Tories move from truly abysmal to really dire, but no better than that. (View Post)

He needs to find time to get over to South West Norfolk (26,195) before it's too late for Liz. (View Post)