Lord Ashcroft: My next three focus groups in Labour-held, Leave voting constituencies
Such seats are absolutely to the Conservatives’ hopes of an overall majority – but what do the voters have to say?
Lord Ashcroft: Introducing my general election polling dashboard
Together with my weekly focus groups, it will help to explain the dynamics of the campaign and the factors that will determine the outcome.
Lord Ashcroft: My focus groups in three heavily remain-voting Liberal Democrat targets
What do voters in Richmond Park, Cambridge, and Finchley & Golders Green think about the Prime Minister, the Opposition, and the election?
Lord Ashcroft: With a year to go, my latest research looks at Trump’s chances of getting a second term
A portion of his 2016 voters are unimpressed and wavering – but the President’s fate is not settled. Particularly as the Democrats are yet to agree a candidate.
Lord Ashcroft: What my latest surveys found voters south of the border think about the Union
Overall, most English voters would rather keep the Union together if it were up to them.
Lord Ashcroft: PTSD-suffering military veterans show long-term benefits from working with orphaned baby rhinos
The participants in Footprints of Hope say that they would encourage other veterans with mental health and physical disabilities to apply for future programmes.
Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: Are the “true Brexiteers” too Brexity to deliver Brexit?
And: The Defence Secretary denies we need to pick empires. Plus: More publicans needed in politics – and the menace of the anti-meat lobby.
Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: Perhaps Johnson really is the British Trump. And voters like it.
And: Gove says MPs can sit at weekends to get a deal through. Plus: Brisk business at the bookstall – and the menace of the “offence archaeologists”.
Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: Could Tory MPs be whipped to vote that they don’t have confidence…in their own Government?
And: Gigabit broadband will soon be “sprouting like vermicelli”, says Johnson. Plus: Mordaunt’s warnings and Hoey’s heroine’s welcome.
Lord Ashcroft: What my new poll of 8000 voters tells us about the country, the parties – and Brexit
It sets the scene as the Conservative Conference opens by showing what the voters themselves make of the unfolding drama.
Lord Ashcroft: My Northern Ireland polling. Six out of ten voters there accept the backstop. But only one in five Unionists do so.
More broadly, there is a lead for Irish unification of 46 per cent to 45 per cent – a statistical tie.
Lord Ashcroft: What my latest focus groups say about the twists and turns of the Brexit drama
More poignantly, it was also clear that many had become so demoralised as to wonder whether voting was worth bothering with.
Lord Ashcroft: An open letter to Alok Sharma, the new International Development Secretary
We should measure the success of our aid programmes by the good we achieve, not simply by the amount of money we spend.
Lord Ashcroft: My new Scotland poll. Yes to Independence takes the lead.
That’s the first time this has been the case for more than two years – though the majority is small.
Lord Ashcroft: Will voters still give Johnson the benefit of the doubt? We’re about to find out.
Lessons endure from my polling study of our new Prime Minister, carried out six years ago when he was London’s Mayor.