Local elections
Sunday reading
To try to impress the new editor I have three articles in The Independent on Sunday today.
In the political column I suggest that the local election results on Thursday were not good enough to give Labour any confidence of winning a majority at the next general election.
This is partly on the grounds that the UKIP [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 8:03 pm
Labour lost more votes than Tories as UKIP surged
Mark Pack, the excellent Lib Dem blogger, pointed this out yesterday, but it took a while for me to make sense of the figures. He compared the BBC’s Projected National Share of the vote for this week’s local elections with last year’s local elections.*
_________ 2012 2013 Change
Conservative 31% 25% -6
Labour [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 4:23 pm
Local elections: Labour didn’t do enough to win in 2015
What we do not know about yesterday’s local elections is how many UKIP voters will go, or go back, to the Conservatives when they are warned that a vote for Nigel Farage will let Ed Miliband into Downing Street.
But we can say this much. The early BBC estimates for the change in vote share in [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 2:14 pm
Gordon Brown: Termination or Salvation?
In the aftermath of the historically poor results in the European and local elections, and with the prospects for the general election bleak, Labour MPs face a critical choice this evening; a dilemma on which their careers, the future of the Labour Party, and the future of the country may turn: should Gordon stay or [...]
By David Price | Eagle Eye | Monday, 8 June 2009 at 2:44 pm
What should the Labour Party do next?
With the Labour Party languishing in the latest set of polls – recording in one poll its lowest rating since opinion polls began in the 1940s – a third place finish looming in next month’s local and European elections, and rumours of a challenge to Gordon Brown’s leadership building in Westminster, what should the Labour [...]
By David Price | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 14 May 2009 at 9:05 am
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