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It’s still “silly season” in political news, so rather than try and analyse the finer points of whether or not Charles Kennedy is leaving the Liberal Democrats for Labour, I thought I’d use the opportunity to raise (briefly) something I’ve been meaning to post about for a while. Ken Clarke has said that the rise [...]

This morning on PoliticalBetting.com, Mike Smithson speculated that the proposed measures to scrap free milk for under-5’s would be “saved” by the Liberal Democrats to try and retrieve a few points in the polls. Doing so would balance-out the fortunes of the coalition parties a little, especially given the Lib Dem’s plummeting poll numbers. My [...]

If, like me, you have a tendency to skip through headlines and then read the interesting articles, David Miliband’s latest remarks might have seemed a bit defeatist. The idea that Labour may spend “years out of power” (although to be fair, it’s was hardly ever going to be just “months”) seems an incredibly pessimistic prediction [...]