AIUI the Lib Dems are targeting eighty seats, and that might be the grand total inclusive of what they already hold. That doesn't seem excessive if you're trying to get to around 50 and assuming that… (View Post)

And if necessary you plug lots of gaps in the more junior positions with peers. Anyway, the importance of the Opposition in the Commons to any Government with a substantial majority is overstated. So… (View Post)

In the contemporary media landscape you do need to be seen to be trying a little harder than that, but the general point is taken. And the job of critiquing the administration can be done more effect… (View Post)

Little bit of a Tory uptick, but nothing to set the world on fire. Unless the Reform vote implodes in the privacy of the polling booth, the Conservatives will be well short of 30% of the popular vote… (View Post)

Just joined the conversation. Are we overanalyzing tiny little changes in random opinion polls again? (View Post)