SNP holding on to yes vote
The SNP is now sitting on – allowing for a bit of churning – pretty much all the Labour supporters who backed independence.
Ed Miliband sets out how a Labour government would honour its pledge to cut university tuition fees to £6,000 a year, saying an “entire generation” has been betrayed.
The Lib Dems are at their lowest level of support for 25 years. As a new poll puts them on just 6 per cent, Michael Crick takes his pink Cadillac to Chippenham to find out why the slump.
Michael Crick, for his second Hunter S Thompson-themed tour, is in the northern part of one of Ukip’s main target seats, Boston and Skegness – a seat held by the Tories from the last election.
How can political parties persuade younger voters to make their way to the polling stations in May in the face of apathy, a new electoral registration system, and recent policies aimed at pensioners?
The president of RMT rail union announces he will stand for the Green Party at the general election, after claiming that Labour had become a “reddish Conservative Party”.
Nick Clegg will lose his seat at the general election in May if a poll by respected Conservative pollster Lord Ashcroft remains true.
“Everybody knows that if you have a collation you make compromises,” Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg tells Jackie Long on his broken promise on tuition fees.
The Liberal Democrats have been making their pitch as the party that will not cut as much as the Conservatives or borrow as much as Labour.
The SNP is now sitting on – allowing for a bit of churning – pretty much all the Labour supporters who backed independence.
If Sir Jeremy Heywood had taken one month to decide that the Bush/Blair exchanges could be published by the Chilcot team we would have the Iraq report by now.
Business Secretary Vince Cable says the Lib Dem pact with the Tories “was something we had to do” for the national interest, but slams their current approach on tackling the deficit.
The odds of a coalition after 2015 recede in your mind the more you chat around Westminster. It’s not impossible. But it’s not a hot favourite either.
So far, in the 36 seats where Labour MPs are retiring in May, the party has picked only one BME candidate. The Conservatives, in contrast, have chosen six BME candidates so far in their 34 “retirement” seats.
Is the Chilcot report into the Iraq war being delayed for political purposes or, more prosaically, just a bit disorganised but doing its best to be fair to witnesses?
Why the polls got their results wrong is not clear. It may be some people are unwilling to admit they are going to vote Conservative, or feel they ought to say they will vote Labour.