A final post on boundary changes (at least until the Scottish proposals next month). This comes from a discussion I had with Mark Pack. Normally the thing we look at with boundary changes is what the party-partisan effect is, how the new boundaries would change the sort of swing that
I've been tied up with boundary changes and having a birthday at the weekend, so this is just a quick post to catch up with some of the voting intention and Scottish Independence polling I've missed. Looking at Westminster voting first, I've updated the
This is the third in a series of posts on the boundary review. There is a general overview of what is happening and why it's controversial here, a summary of what the effects are and some of MPs who are losing their seats here. This final post has
Overnight the English and Welsh boundary commissions released their initial proposals for the boundary changes - the English proposals are here, Welsh proposals are here. If you missed it, I discussed the wider background to the boundary changes and how they work yesterday. The initial proposals are very much as
On Tuesday the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales publish their provisional recommendations for Parliamentary boundary changes (the Northern Ireland commission published last week, Scotland is still to come). The review will replace the current 650 Parliamentary constituencies with 600 constituencies with more equal electorates. The recommendations this week will
The Times this morning had new polling on the junior doctors strike (the fieldwork was completed shortly before the strike later this month was called off). It shows that more of the public support the strike than oppose it, but only just, and that support has fallen significantly since earlier
Tomorrow's Times has a new YouGov poll of the Labour leadership electorate (party members from before the cut-off date, trade union affiliates and £25 registered supporters) showing Jeremy Corbyn with a robust lead over Owen Smith. Topline voting intentions excluding don't knows are Corbyn 62%, Smith
I'll be taking a break from the blog over the next week while I have a summer rest (I may pop in if something interesting happens, but I'm going to try not to), but before I go a quick pointer to something I wrote over on
Ipsos MORI have released their monthly political monitor. It's their first poll since Theresa May became Prime Minister, so the changes since last month show the same honeymoon boost we've seen in other companies' figures. Topline figures are CON 45%(+9), LAB 34%(-1), LDEM
Labour's performance in polls and in mid-term elections has become a political football – not just the usual rather routine spinning of parties saying how well they are doing, but a key faultline in Labour's internal leadership battle. A key argument of Jeremy Corbyn's critics
A wrote a few weeks ago that in the past the boost enjoyed by a Prime Minister taking over mid-term has often only lasted a month or so. The latest YouGov poll suggests that Theresa May's honeymoon is following the same pattern and has now started to fade.
YouGov's latest voting intention figures in the Times this morning are CON 42%(+2), LAB 28%(nc), LDEM 8%(nc), UKIP 12%(-1), GRN 3%(-1). The changes since last week are not significant in themselves, but push the Conservatives to a fourteen point lead, the largest from
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