Liberal Democrat Newswire #52 is out: those Ashcroft polls and what’s going to happen in Glasgow?
Anyone, after all, liberal or democrat or neither, can be in favour of walking along the coast. … Read the full post »
Read about the Conservative Party peer and pollster Lord Michael Ashcroft.
Anyone, after all, liberal or democrat or neither, can be in favour of walking along the coast. … Read the full post »
Michael Ashcroft’s recent polling across 17 Conservative-Lib Dem marginal seats, of which 11 are currently held by the Liberal Democrats, acted as a good personality test for Liberal Democrat activists. … Read the full post »
As with Labour, the biggest source of new supporters for the Conservatives are Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
There’s much of interest and wisdom in Lord Ashcroft’s reaction to media reports of internal Tory polling. There’s also one very odd comment. … Read the full post »
The Tory lead over the Liberal Democrats in eight key marginal seats held by David Cameron’s party has gone up by only 1%. … Read the full post »
Time to stick my neck out and trust to my sources… There’s a new Ashcroft Eastleigh poll out at midnight. Looks like it will be Lib Dem 33%, Conservative 28%, UKIP 21% and Labour 12%. … Read the full post »
A mega-donor is so down on the Conservative Party’s electoral prospects he is cutting his financial support for the party. … Read the full post »
The real political contest is both elsewhere and not one single contest. It is not about Conservative versus Labour, except by incidental outcome. … Read the full post »
I was on the Daily Politics with Tim Montgomerie being grilled by Andrew Neil about the forthcoming Eastleigh Parliamentary by-election. … Read the full post »
“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. … Read the full post »