Parliamentary by-election gains for Labour have been rare beasts. The last three have taken between them 25 years - Wirral South (1997), Corby (2012) and now Wakefield. It is a significant recovery a… (View Post)

No it hasn't because that binding together in the present context would require Russia to be an EU member. And in so far that the leaders of Germany etc have been happy to bind its economy to Ru… (View Post)

Why the apparent pessimism from OGH? A swing of the same magnitude as in N Shropshire (34%) would see the LDs home by a margin of 22%. The LDs also started there on 3rd, with a 10% vote share, and 53… (View Post)

OT (belatedly) Reading the Conservative leaflet, I think OGH's criticisms are overdone. What the leaflet does is pose some potentially convincing arguments to the 60% of the constituency who vot… (View Post)

That really is clutching at straws. In other words "we won the next election after changing the PM but we shouldn't have changed as we went on to lose the next 3 after that." Do you re… (View Post)