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Asks Mike Smithson. That's No 304 in John Rentoul's world famous series .

Facts are few on the ground this morning relative to what the comrades will get up to later this week First the gossip.  Paul Mason, Newsnig...

Substance is not a word that can be used to describe the coverage of the talks between the Tories and the Lib Dems.  Is a deal almost agreed...

The DM4LO committee will kick off its campaign as soon as Gordon Brown makes his intentions known.  However, it is important to note that if...

That was just one of the memorable phrases that came from the pen of Alan Watkins, the doyen of political columnists, who died yesterday.  O...

As discussed in the previous post, David Cameron is in rather a powerful position.  Ironically, he being ably assisted by the rumours that ...

It was kind of Gordon Brown to give a lecture to the nation on its unwritten constitution yesterday.  However, not for the first time, he de...

Before we move forward to what happens next, the various failings of our traditional way of doing things on election day, and what followed ...

A number of points after being up all night: Labour and the Lib Dems may not have the number of seats to get a majority.  Therefore it is li...

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Who and what will Labour blame tonight? In no particular order: Lord Ashcroft; The media for reporting style over substance; The reporting o...

With so many variables, not least the number of undecided voters, we will have to wait for the exit poll to discover how many seats the part...

Alan Johnson comes a close second to Tony Blair in the art of communication. Here is the three-times-election-winner explaining why his so...

Our man has been doing his stuff this morning: Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are experiencing some kind of slow puncture, the air is ...

Brown makes another passionate speech, the tax credit scare stories continue and the Cabinet send out mixed messages over the small matter o...

Gordon Brown : I may have not been meeting all the people I should have been meeting, but I certainly tried. And: I am not going to talk abo...

In the unlikely event that Labour is in a position to do a deal with Nick Clegg on Friday, John Rentoul, the emeritus chairman of the AJ4PM...

At long last Gordon Brown finds his voice and makes a passionate speech .  Unfortunately for him, and the Labour party, one swallow doesn...

It's a Bank Holiday, but that doesn't stop the pollsters carrying out their day job .  The more seasoned campaigners will wait until...

Oh dear.  Just as our Prime Minister-in-waiting was beginning to act the part the mask slips once again. Cameron was on fine form when he wa...

One of the more astute comments made during the campaign came from Peter Hyman, a former strategist for Tony Blair, on Newsnight last week: ...

According to Patrick Hennessey in the Sunday Telegraph, Brown is expected to step down quickly if Labour is defeated on Thursday: Labour in...

Gillian Duffy has spoken in a dignified way about her chance encounter with Gordon Brown last Wednesday: You know the thing that upset me ...

For what it's worth, the consensus amongst the great and good at White Hart Lane ( Spurs won ) is that Cameron will get over the line, b...

The Prime Minister reflecting on the Gillian Duffy incident: I have personally paid this heavy price for a mistake that I made. Gordon Brow...

This morning brings the shock horror news that the Guardian has come out for the Lib Dems (or the Liberals as Gordon Brown insists on callin...

That didn't talk long.  Following yesterday's speculation , Alistair Darling has appeared on Straight Talk to rule himself out of ...

The DM/AJ4PM/LO committee may have to renamed at the end of next week.  Meanwhile, rumours have stared circulating about what may happen on...

Much has changed since the-three-times-election-winner gave a little speech in his former Sedgefield constituency.  Today it's reported ...

After three ninety minute TV debates the election campaign is almost over.  There is not much left to be revealed apart the weekend polls.  ...

The first leaders' debate remains the defining moment of this campaign.  Yesterday was a car crash waiting to happen.  What came togethe...

Dear Dave, When your opponent make a gaffe, remember what Harold Wilson said when the Profumo scandal broke: No comment... in glorious Techn...

From Sky News : The Prime Minister was confronted by 66-year-old Gillian Duffy while on the campaign trail in Rochdale. He spent nearly five...

Our man was on top form this morning: There's a real sense with the Conservatives that in this 'big society' we just all walk ar...

Speaking this morning: If we wake up on Friday May 7 and we find that we’ve got a hung parliament or no one’s got a clear result I don’t thi...

Asks Matthew Norman in 1,182 words.  The answer is a simple "yes", but he paints an accurate picture of what may happen after 6 M...

Forget all the talk of a hung parliament for the next couple of days.  With exquisite timing, the IFS sprinkles a dose of reality all over ...

John Rentoul reports : Well, he's on his way , although it is not clear what role he will play in the election campaign's final week...

Jackie Ashley is right : Inevitably, with the TV leaders' debates, this election campaign has been more presidential than ever before. A...

The Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury on the Daily Politics: I don't think any party has identified in detail how they will reduce ...

The reports in the papers this morning highlighting the breakdown of discipline inside the party will do little to help Labour get its mess...

The overnight polls , apart from the non-weighted Opinium, show a narrowing of the Tory lead.    A separate poll for the London area also ...