Paul Linford

Most opinion polls tend to tell you what you already know, and to reinforce the "received wisdom" about politics and politicians. ...

So where do the events of the last 24 hours leave us? David Miliband has set out his stall in what despite his protestations is a barely...

For the past fortnight since the local election debacle I have been running a Poll on who should lead the Labour Party into the next genera...

In my weekend column (see previous post ), I wrote that I don’t detect any appetite in the Labour Party for another leadership change, and t...

Many aeons ago before the world's financial system went into near-meltdown we were all busy obsessing about whether Michael Martin would...

According to a poll carried out on Iain Dales' Diary , Gordon Brown is the worst Labour Chancellor ever, with 44pc of the vote compared ...

Earlier this week I argued that while Michael Martin should certainly not be forced out of office in a way that would undermine the indepen...

Despite the current focus on Jacqui Smith - a sacrifical lamb if ever there was one - Harriet Harman is not yet quite out of the woods over...

I don't especially like Jose Mourinho - the man's obvious arrogance aside, his tactics at Chelsea with the wonderful players at his ...

A couple of weeks' back I asked readers on this blog who should replace Alistair Darling as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Such has been ...

To round off the week, two polls - one on the next Chancellor of the Exchequer , the other on the next England football manager . Steve McC...

Last week I asked readers of this blog to vote on what they thought should have been in the Queen's Speech that wasn't, listing ten...

Nikc Clegg continues to be the hot favourite in the Lib Dem leadership contest, but among readers of this blog, at least, the two candidates...

One of the most wounding jibes against Gordon Brown that has been made in recent weeks was David Cameron's comment at PMQs that "he...

Nominations in the Lib Dem leadership contest close on Wednesday, and it seems 99.9pc certain that the party will have a straight choice bet...

My ongoing, totally unscientific but possibly quite representative poll on Labour's deputy leadership shows Jon Cruddas leading the way...