YouGov: Corbyn victory clears pilloried pollsters after general election disaster
After the debacle at the general election many were sceptical about pollsters’ ability to successfully predict elections – rather a drawback in the indust...
Author: Jimmy Nicholls
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Andy Burnham ‘privately’ says Jeremy Corbyn ‘disaster for the Labour party’
The Labour leadership contest having drawn to a close, many of the candidates other than hard leftist Jeremy Corbyn have already half-conceded defeat, with the ...
Sian Berry for London mayor: ‘We’re not just going to impose our Green will’
In some ways it’s hard to imagine a city less attuned to the Green party than the gas-guzzling, capitalistic, cutthroat capital that is London. As well as...
Tim Farron holds milk, looks aggrieved, causes much confusion
Every politician should have a concerned face, and whatever one thinks of Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron he certainly knows how to look suitably aggrieved. ...
Northern Irish first minister Peter Robinson quits amid turmoil at Stormont
The unfolding crisis in Northern Ireland’s government deepened on Thursday as first minister and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson sto...