Tag: Simon-Hughes
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At long last, the leadership election is starting bring out real issues, with both Ming Campbell and Chris Huhne starting to develop their policy stalls. Simon Hughes meanwhile is still stuck in willy waving mode. From what I’ve read, Ming’s policy document is quite impressive. I need to go through it in more detail, but…
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I was wondering which candidate would be the first to succomb to the temptations of the bar chart. In the end, I was unsurprised to discover it was Simon Hughes on his new (vastly improved) website. It is a shame however that the Hughes Campaign have chosen to endorse data which is statistically meaningless, methodologically…
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The Times and The Guardian both have some interesting – but not very convincing – polls today. The Times has a poll conducted by Populus in which people were asked if they recognised the candidates. Not surprisingly, Ming came top at 41%, Simon scored 34% and Huhne scored 4%. In and of itself, this is…
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Latest betting odds: Campbell: 4/6 Huhne: 10/3 Hughes: 7/2 Yes, Huhne has overtaken one-time favourite Hughes. More on Hughes’ slide to nowhere later, but this will do for now.
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Very brief, but in order of performance… 1st, Chris: good interventions, best on policy. Absolutely creamed Oaten on his attempts to claim the Liberal crown. Delighted to hear him critical of road user charging (preferring higher fuel duties) and his general candidness about environmental policy. Also, by far the strongest on public sector reform. 2nd,…