Adam Boulton Weblog (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Daniel Finkelstein has put this graph - from Andrew Cooper at Populus - on his excellent Comment Central site at Times Online... The blue line tracks the popularity of John Major's government from 1992 to 1997. The red one charts...
ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Yesterday Iain Dale posted Michael Portillo's advice to David Cameron : ow should the Tories react? Until recently it was obvious that to avoid too much probing, they should align their economic policy with Labour’s, just as Brown in opposition pledged to stick to Conservative plans. Even now to deviate too far from Brown's figures might simply invite again the question that has dogged the party at...
The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Courtesy of Danny Finkelstein: The red line shows Labour's approval rating since 2005, the blue John Major's 1992-97 ministry. Nuff said. (The bulge was the brief Brown Summer in which, helped by not being Tony Blair and his calm response to terrorism, Brown was for a moment or two actually quite popular.)
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Last week Mervyn King told us that the "nice decade" was over. David Cameron is set to deliver the same message later today in a major speech in Birmingham. According to reports in the Telegraph, Independent and Daily Mail the...
Man in a Shed (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
David Cameron is reported by Rosa Prince (!) in today's Telegraph with the following opening words: Lower taxes on families and an end to "reckless" state spending will be at the heart of the Conservative Party's campaign to oust Labour from power. This is the best news from the Conservative party in years ! ( We can expect Labour to sheepishly try to copy, after Gordon has had some time for calculating,...
Stephen Pollard (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Comment Central has a fascinating graph , which plots the current Government's poll ratings since the election in 2005 and matches it with the Major Government's ratings from the election in 1992. Here's the key - and, when you look at it, obvious - conclusion: Labour is on the same path as the Tories in the run up to their spectacular defeat in 1997.
Ranting Stan (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
The Daily Telegraph seems to be increasingly desperate to believe that the Conservatives under Cameron are still, well, conservative. At least that is the case if this latest piece is anything to go by. Setting out his strategy for cutting taxes in detail for the first time, the Tory leader will pledge to get tough on those who are a drain on the welfare state; introduce more competition into the public...
