Right Wing Watch newsletter: Week 1 February 2022
Welcome to the first Right Wing Watch newsletter of February.
Lord Ashcroft
Daily Mail admits story about Lord Ashcroft predicting a Labour victory was wrong
The Mail has said sorry for reporting a prediction the Tory peer never made
Five results to look out for tonight
As the results come in, look out for these five Labour/Tory battleground seats. They could be early indicators of whether we’ll see Cameron or Miliband in Number 10
SNP surge continues in final poll
Labour could end up with less than 10 seats north of the border
Even Murphy knows the latest poll is bad news for Scottish Labour
Ashcroft’s poll shows that a Labour-SNP coalition is by far the most popular outcome from the election
How Labour can win Tory voters in 2015
Tory voters are defecting. The problem is that only a fifth of these defectors are switching their allegiance to Labour.
Scotland’s ‘reluctant Cameroons’
In a report published today entitled ‘Cameron’s Caledonian Conundrum’, 18 per cent of respondents in Scotland were more favourable to David Cameron than the Conservatives as a whole.
The unions and the Labour will just have to work harder to win the support of working people
According to a poll by Lord Ashcroft, a majority of Unite members don’t feel they are well represented by Ed Miliband.
Ashcroft on Aid: ‘We can’t afford it’
During the recent reshuffle the government shifted rightwards in both tone and substance . Cameron has long aimed to stop the Tory party from being known as the ‘nasty party’, but he is undoubtedly failing. This was reaffirmed today bytest
Budget 2012: Does Osborne think Caan, Ashcroft and Green are “morally repugnant”?
Kevin Meagher wonders what will happen the next time George Osborne meets the “morally repugnant” tax dodgers James Caan, Lord Ashcroft and Sir Philip Green.