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WATCH: The LBC Women Leaders' Debate
- 9 Apr 2015
Scroll in four minutes to miss the adverts… This is what a proper debate looks like. Even the Daily Mirror agrees. They’ve just published an article headlined: “7 things we learnt from the LBC Radio all-women General Election debate”. Here are their conclusions… LBC Rad...
Tales from an Edinburgh Taxi
- 29 Mar 2015
I was in a taxi in Edinburgh this morning, and got talking to the driver, as you do. “Who are you going to vote for,” I asked after a while. “I’ve always voted Labour, but I don’t think I’m going to this time,” he replied. “I imagine it’ll be the SNP then,” I suggested. “Ne...
Labour Triumph Over Channel 4/Sky Debate Format
- 27 Mar 2015
In the post below I mused as to why Ed Miliband didn’t face Jeremy Paxman first and answer audience questions second, like David Cameron did. It seemed very odd that the format was different for both leaders. I’ve now found out the reason. According to a souce close to the ev...
Miliband v Cameron Live: Miliband Shaded it But Will It Change Anything?
- 26 Mar 2015
In some ways that was a prime example of how not to produce a programme. The format didn’t work, the selection of audience questions was lax in the extreme and the whole thing was clunky. Why on earth did Sky and Channel 4 not ditch their adverts? The programme wasn’t 90 minut...
My Twenty Pieces of Advice to General Election Candidates
- 22 Mar 2015
This is a rehash of a blog I wrote at the beginning of the 2010 election campaign, having just re-read my blogposts from the 2005 election, when I was Conservative candidate in North Norfolk. The experience brought back lots of memories – not all of them bad! But it did make ...
Who Would Be in a Cameron Cabinet After 7 May?
- 22 Mar 2015
Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to look at a few post-election scenarios in terms of possible cabinet line-ups and who might stand in any of the various leadership contests the election result might throw up. Let’s start by looking at a possible Cameron Cabinet. I’m g...
Revised General Election Predictions for the South West
- 16 Mar 2015
There are 55 seats in the South West, which includes Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire and the Bristol area. My January predictions looked like this… Conservative 39 Labour 9 LibDem 7 I’m not making any changes to my original predictions for any ...
Revised General Election Predictions for the South East
- 16 Mar 2015
There are 78 parliamentary constituencies in the South East. In my original predictions in January, this is how things stood… Conservative 67 Labour 7 LibDem 1 UKIP 1 Green 1 Speaker 1 There are only two constituencies in the South East that I wish to revise my predictions f...
Revised General Election Predictions for East Anglia
- 16 Mar 2015
There are 58 parliamentary seats in the East of England, which comprises Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Back in January I predicted this outcome… Conservative 43 Labour 10 Liberal Democrat 3 UKIP 2 Let’s start of by revising two of m...
WATCH: Is Chuka Too Sexy For British Politics?
- 11 Mar 2015
Hashtag awkward. He enjoyed it really, though :) Actually, of all the phone-ins I do on my programme, Chuka gets the most positive response from people who text and email in. Yes, he obviously has his detractors, as all politicians do, but a lot of people reckon he comes acro...