Archive for lord ashcroft
+++ New Eastleigh poll: Lib Dems 5% ahead, UKIP 3rd
Time to stick my neck out and trust to my sources… There’s a new Ashcroft Easteigh poll out at midnight. Looks like it will be Lib Dem 33%, Conservative 28%, UKIP 21% and Labour 12%. That’s almost dead on the same as the last Populus poll and a shift to the Lib Dems from the [...]
Bad news for Tories, good news for Liberal Democrats and Labour
From today’s Sunday Times via @suttonnick:
Eastleigh: more on that poll and who the Lib Dem candidate will be
This lunchtime I was on the Daily Politics with Tim Montgomerie being grilled by Andrew Neil about the forthcoming Eastleigh Parliamentary by-election: Keep watching to near the end, for this rather helpful quote: “Ideal scenario would be where the Lib Dems win” – Lab cllr on Eastleigh. Watch video at bit.ly/YZbuFS — Mark Pack (@markpack) [...]
What do the academics say? Ashcroft’s campaigning worked
"The efforts of Lord Ashcroft's team involved the expenditure of several million pounds during the pre-election campaign period in an effort to win over voters in key battleground seats. But was it effective? ... We provide substantial evidence that it was" - so concludes new academic research.
More questions raised over Lord Ashcroft’s business empire
The business dealings of former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman and one of its biggest donors, Lord Ashcroft, are back in the news again. As The Observer reports: Fresh revelations have raised a series of questions about the links between the former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft and a company responsible for luxury projects across a [...]
Campaign Corner: What campaigning books are worth reading?
The Campaign Corner series looks to give three tips about commonly asked campaign issues. Do get in touch if you have any questions you would like to suggest. Today’s Campaign Corner question: I prefer learning by reading rather than by hearing people speak at training sessions. What campaigning books would you recommend? Lots of possible answers, [...]
The best Conservative blog post of the week…
… came from Lord Ashcroft, taking to task fellow Conservatives for their obesssion with Europe: f there is one thing that unites Conservatives it is the desire to win the next general election outright. Certain things follow from this. The first is that we need more votes at the next election than we received at [...]
Liberal Democrat CONNECT
I thought a round-up of some of my posts and other background about the party’s new electoral database software, CONNECT, would be useful as they’ve been spread out over several months. First, the origins: following the party’s 2010 general election review, it was decided to get a new electoral database with three companies tendering for [...]
Only 3% swing to Tories in key Con/Lib Dem marginals
The detailed polling by Lord Ashcroft published today on ConservativeHome brings some encouraging news for the Liberal Democrats. In a set of key marginals held by the Conservatives and where the Liberal Democrats were second in 2010, there has only been a modest swing to the Conservatives since May 2010. In the eight seats polled, [...]
House of Lords reform: taking a look at the details
Yesterday Nick Clegg unveiled the Government’s proposals for reforming the House of Lords, an idea that David Cameron is on record as fully backing. The mere idea of introducing elections for half of our Parliament is shocking enough for some (letting the public decide who rules them? what a radical idea) that the details have [...]
