Mike Smithson at Political Betting is suggesting that the Conservatives will find it hard to win a “reasonable size” majority at the next general election - due to the number of Lib Dem MPs in the target seats. The reasoning behind this comes from the experience of the 1979 general election and the very small

The BBC's Parliament Channel is broadcasting their recording (from black-and-white film, by the look of it) of the 1964 General Election. It was an interesting election, in that although Labour won it from the Conservatives, they gained relatively few seats in the north of England, and in fact lost Smethwick to the Conservatives. It is interesting to watch the election coverage from that time,

The former prime minister is returning to frontline politics to play a key role in Labour's election campaign with a brief to target David Cameron's "failure" to modernise the Conservatives.

The Conservatives have widened their poll lead to seven points with little more than a week to go before the General Election.

I think there is a very good chance that Brown will call a General Election early in the New Year (January, February), off the back of this PBR. He will say something like "I told you in October 2007 that...

Oooooh! Gordon Brown is to "ruthlessly target" David Cameron in a general election campaign, The Sun reports today. That's incredible; Number 10 aides say the PM is preparing to target the leader of the opposition! In an election! Something makes me think the PM has been spending too much time hanging out with Lord Mandelson and is getting over excited. I know that Brown has very little exper...

The results of yesterday's Canadian general election show the Conservatives ahead with 143 seats and 37.64% of the votes. In a 308-member parliament, the 143 seats the Tories have is not enough to form a majority. So, they will have to form a minority government once more. The Liberals got 76 seats - down from 103 at the last general election. They got 26.23% of the votes cast. This is a setback f...

THE General Election turned nasty over the weekend as the Conservatives launched a poster campaign accusing Labour of telling lies about Tory policies on the elderly.

David Cameron has received a boost with an opinion poll by The Sunday Telegraph's ICM showing the Conservatives once again on course for a majority at the general election.

The Liberal Democrats' surge in the opinion polls has provided an opportunity for the Conservatives to target Labour seats which they had previously all but given up on, Tory insiders have said.