“This guy was out on automatic early release and I have long said that this system simply isn’t working.”
In Chesterfield, people want to know about tackling potholes, safeguarding social care, and protecting the local High Street and local pubs.
At the last election strong early poll leads seduced them into shifting resources from marginals into far more hostile territory, with disastrous results.
When a Labour leader has exhausted their stock of coherent charges, they claim that the Tories are going to sell the Health Service.
Their MRP projection has the Scottish Nationalists picking up several seats, often by narrow margins, which would surprise those on the ground.
There is a misguided belief that the sector is an easy route to raising tax revenues. Businesses and second home owners are being penalised.
This region contains a sizeable clutch of those crucial ‘Labour Leave’ seats through which the Prime Minister is trying to pave his path to an overall majority.
Who will their taxes really hit? How much will they truly raise? And can this really be described as a ‘moderate’ agenda?
As Mayor of London, he carefully selected and built an effective team around him to deliver on his election promises. He trusted that team to get on with the job.
When forced to choose, people prefer a Boris Johnson government to a Corbyn government by a ten-point margin, down from 12 points last week.
Corbyn has made it safer to indulge the Tory leadership’s willingness to spend. But there are signs of at least some restraint.
It presents an exciting agenda spanning everything from hiring more staff to investing in key infrastructure and supporting innovation.
Each week, our panel of James Frayne, Marcus Roberts, Trevor Phillips, and Salma Shah will will analyse and assess what’s happening.