This blog was created by the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) to provide coverage of the 2008 Canadian federal elections. It offers news, comment and analysis on the elections. There is especially good analysis of the main public opinion polls throughout the campaigns. These include seat projections, electoral maps and graphs of the political landscape.

Wife of Northern Ireland First Minister's has unleashed a political storm over disclosures of a Catholic lover who received £50,000 to set up a business

The married lover of Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has claimed it was not his fault that his marriage ended.

The lover of DUP MP Iris Robinson was aged 19 at the time of their affair, the BBC can reveal.

Iris Robinson is facing questions over her financial dealings after her young lover Kirk McCambley was revealed.

The bare bones of the internal party election results were set out here on Saturday showing who had been elected by conference reps to the various committees. The detailed results for the Federal Executive and the Federal Policy Committee, hosted by Colin Rosenstiel, show some revealing trends when compared with previous years’ election results. This

Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, took his lover to meet the Queen at the state banquet for the Emir of Qatar at Windsor Castle.

I really never thought I would say that. They can appear somewhat cliquey – the only Federal Committee to publish its mugshots in the conference agenda (apparently conference representatives aren’t interested in who looks after their interests on the Federal Executive or the Federal Policy Committee). They can be a bit insensitive: not the cleverest

Iris Robinson is facing questions over her financial dealings after her young lover Kirk McCambley was revealed.

Much scoffing in the blog o'sphere about the travails of Iris Robinson, wife of NI First Minister Peter Robinson, who allegedly set up her lover in business with loans from property developers to whom she had ties. The money was paid to her 19-year-old lover Kirk McCambley to help him launch a new cafe. She later asked him for £5,000 for herself. Mrs Robinson was said to be unable to comment for ...