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Eastleigh by-election: your essential round-up of the latest campaign news...
Here’s a round-up of news from the past 24 hours in the Eastleigh by-election… Mike Thornton’s campaign in full swing The Lib Dems’ Mike Thornton — pictured here (by Jon Aylwin) with 1994 by-election...
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Nick Clegg’s Letter from the Leader: “From Eastleigh to Africa – and back...
Nick’s latest weekly missive focuses on two places: his visits as party leader to the Lib Dem by-election campaign in Eastleigh, and his visit as Deputy Prime Minister to Mozambique and Ethiopia to...
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What Google reveals about the current state of play in Eastleigh
The search results thrown up by Google often provide a neat little insight into what angles of a story are dominating coverage and people’s attention. The angles that get the most prominent coverage...
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Eastleigh by-election: your essential round-up of all the weekend’s news (18...
The penultimate weekend’s campaigning was frenetic at the Lib Dems’ Eastleigh HQ… Over 530 Lib Dem volunteers passed through its doors in just this weekend (to add to the 1,000+ who’d visited in the...
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Eastleigh by-election: your essential round-up of the latest campaign news...
It’s been another record-breaking day for Mike Thornton’s team in Eastleigh — well over 200 party volunteers had arrived by lunchtime today, with many more arriving later on. This follows the 530+ who...
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Eastleigh Tory candidate “running scared” from hustings
The Conservative candidate has pulled out of the BBC Radio 5 Live hustings this morning, and is facing accusations of running scared of voters. From The Guardian: There is growing concern within the...
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Missing out on history
In 1990, I always intended to help in the Eastbourne by-election. But I was busy, so I kept putting it off from one weekend to the next. And then, it was too late. Like all Liberal Democrats, I...
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Eastleigh by-election: your essential round-up of the week’s campaign news
Lib Dem chief executive Tim Gordon summed up the week so far in his weekly email to activists: Liberal Democrats have broken their own party’s by-election campaign records with more volunteers, more...
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++ Another new Eastleigh poll – and this time it shows the Tories in front by 4%
Last night brought news of a Populus poll for The Times showing the Lib Dems ahead of the Tories by 33%-28%, a Lib Dem lead of 5%. But tonight a Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday has shown the...
View ArticleFinal Eastleigh poll puts Lib Dems narrowly ahead of Tories – but all within...
What will (I assume) be the final poll of the Eastleigh by-election was published this morning. Conducted by Populus and commissioned by Lord Ashcroft, it shows the Lib Dems sustaining a narrow lead —...
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Eastleigh by-election: your essential round-up of the latest campaign news...
I reported earlier this morning the latest poll from Eastleigh — showing a narrow Lib Dem lead over the Tories — but one finding in it is particularly relevant to this round-up. The question was asked:...
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Eastleigh by-election: your essential round-up of the latest campaign news...
Welcome to the final round-up of the Eastleigh by-election campaign… It was the week when Mike Thornton’s campaign received a boost from former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown on Tuesday: Out on the...
View ArticleHow are you spending your lunch hour today?
This man has a suggestion… Every call makes a difference. Hit those phones to send Mike Thornton to Westminster. Instructions on how to do it are here. * Caron Lindsay is Co-Editor of Liberal...
View ArticleMike Thornton says thank you
Hundreds of activists from across the UK have been part of a fantastic campaign in Eastleigh. Tonight, as we wait nervously for word from Hampshire, it’s gratifying to know that our candidate has...
View ArticleEastleigh by-election: my first thoughts
Let’s consider the backdrop: we’re polling at half the level we were in 2010; the previous MP, Chris Huhne, was forced to resign after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice and faces a...
View ArticleWillie Rennie and John Prescott crack a joke on Twitter…
The last two big Liberal Democrat by-election winners have not let their place in Liberal Democrat legend go to their heads. Mike Thornton MP (I am not going to get tired writing that in a hurry) was...
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Mike Thornton MP takes his seat in the Commons
By-election winning Lib Dems. Photo by Helen Duffett, on Flickr. From the BBC: The newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Mike Thornton has taken his seat in the House of Commons after winning the...
View ArticleConference Rally: Confessional, motivational and defiant
A conference rally without Tim Farron is a bit like strawberries without cream. When he wasn’t there telling his bad football jokes, I wondered if he’d been put on the Naughty Step for his interview...
View ArticleMike Thornton MP’s maiden speech
The newest Liberal Democrat MP spoke for the first time in Parliament yesterday in a debate on the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill, paying tribute to the work of his predecessors David Chidgey...
View ArticleTales from the seaside…
A few observations from the weekend in Brighton. Lib Dem Voice luxury The Liberal Democrat Voice office was the loveliest we’d ever had. Normally we are stuck in a broom cupboard in amongst bottles of...
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