Poll alert

By John Rentoul Eagle Eye Last updated: Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 10:49 am We have a ComRes opinion poll in The Independent on Sunday tomorrow, shared with the Sunday Mirror. Last month we had a two-point Labour lead. This time we have repeated our Favourability Index, asking if people have a favourable or unfavourable view of six parties – …

Green surge checked – ComRes poll

By John Rentoul Eagle Eye Last updated: Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 8:25 pm The Green surge appears to have stalled after Natalie Bennett, the party leader (right), suffered what she called a “brain fade” in a radio interview last month, according to a ComRes poll for The Independent on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror. The Green Party has …

Ed Balls rehearses Ed Miliband’s lines for the Budget reply

By John Rentoul Eagle Eye Last updated: Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 8:08 pm Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, was on Pienaar’s Politics on BBC Radio 5 Live. It was interesting because John Pienaar put to him some of the things that George Osborne might do in the Budget, and Balls seemed to be trying out …

That hung parliament scenario in full

By John Rentoul Eagle Eye Last updated: Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 3:55 pm I am grateful to Tom for asking a question that I couldn’t immediately answer. Actually, he merely pointed out that the Fixed-term Parliaments Act meant that votes on a Queen’s Speech (a government’s programme for a new session of Parliament) or a Budget could …