Chair @LabourCllrs 2013-23, former leader of Durham County Council and election analyst/author. Tweeting on UK politics (and sometimes football).
Joined May 2014
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16 Dec 2024
Great to see today’s English Devolution white paper launched in Leeds - almost exactly two years after the Brown Commission on the UKs Future set out plans for greater devolution of powers across more areas. Hopefully a real catalyst for change across all of England.
16 Dec 2024
Don’t just take our word for it!
🎥 WATCH: Mayors @mayorofwy @mayorofgm @mayoroflondon @benhouchen @nikjohnsonca @lcrmayor explain why devolution is good for their regions.
#PowerAndPartnership
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25 Jul 2024
Important publication out today from @FutureGovForum and @metrodynamics setting out 15 recommendations to drive local and regional growth. This is critical to ensuring national renewal across all areas of the UK
25 Jul 2024
📣 OUT NOW – Impactful Devolution: A new framework for inclusive local growth & national renewal
New report with @metrodynamics sets out the role of #devolution in delivering Labour's mission to restore growth across the UK
Read the report, or read on 🧵
futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/…
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22 Jul 2024
Very sad news - not only was Dave a long standing @UKLabour councillor in Derbyshire, he was a leading figure on both the LGIU and County Council Network for many years and always a good source of knowledge and advice. My thoughts are with Dave's family and friends.
22 Jul 2024
Dave Wilcox – 9/1/47 to 20/7/24: I was sorry to hear about Dave Wilcox's passing away over the weekend.Dave was a Derbyshire County Councillor elected at first for the Glossop West division in 1981 before changing following boundary reviews to the… antmck.uk/113
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17 Jul 2024
An excellent start!
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9 Jul 2024
This should be welcomed - the term had become utterly meaningless - while the previous gov’t erasing ‘local government’ from the department title spoke volumes bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ve…
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7 Jul 2024
Fantastic to see Sam Carling, who grew up in County Durham, elected as the UK’s youngest MP. Having served with Sam on the @LGAcomms for the last year, I know he will do a brilliant job @LGA_Labour
7 Jul 2024
'No one has yet been able to explain to me why being older makes you better at the job'
22-year-old Sam Carling has been elected as a Labour MP for North West Cambridgeshire and spoke to #BBCBreakfast about being the youngest politician in the House of Commons
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c16j…
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7 Jul 2024
Interesting analysis and table from @rosenbaum6 which confirms the view of many I met during the campaign who were following the YouGov forecasts above all others
6 Jul 2024
My analysis of how the election forecasting models fared at the individual constituency level - YouGov did best, making the fewest inaccurate predictions of who would win each seat
ALT Model and its errors at seat level: YouGov 53 Election Maps 62 Economist 76 Britain Predicts 80 Focal Data 80 More in Common 83 JL Partners 91 Electoral Calculus 93 Financial Times 93 Ipsos 93 Survation 100 Savanta 134 We Think 134
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5 Jul 2024
A brilliant and inspiring speech. #change is in the air!
5 Jul 2024
Live from Downing Street: Watch my first speech as Prime Minister x.com/i/broadcasts/1ynJOyMdB…
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5 Jul 2024
Amazing achievement to top 400 Labour MPs and 200 gains given the very low 2019 start point and also adverse set of boundary changes
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5 Jul 2024
The work of change begins today.
ALT Picture of Keir Starmer in front of Labour Party volunteers, campaigners and staffers
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5 Jul 2024
30 results have now failed to go with their exit poll projections, Reform and SNP almost certain to fall short of projections and be in single figures
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5 Jul 2024
Some striking results recently such as Welwyn Hatfield, East Renfrewshire and a first ever @UKLabour gain in Hexham but also a Lab loss in Leicester East - as a result the exit poll is starting to fight back!
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5 Jul 2024
Big win for @UKLabour in Kilmarnock as the Scottish results start to trickle in - this was 27th on the target list and suggests 30 gains possible in Scotland
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5 Jul 2024
Barnsley North the first @UKLabour seat won additional to the exit poll - which suggested a ‘99% likely Reform gain’
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5 Jul 2024
Seismic swing in Nuneaton, not on the list of seats needed for a @UKLabour majority. Actual results now looking really bad for the Tories and significantly worse than suggested by the exit poll
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5 Jul 2024
I increasingly believe given all the results so far that @UKLabour will do better than the exit poll predicts and Cons worse
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4 Jul 2024
Swindon South joins the list of famous first election night gains and very well deserved for @Heidi_Labour @jimrobbins and all. Impressive 16.5% swing is in line with 200 gains for @UKLabour
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4 Jul 2024
Cons slightly out-performing the exit poll in the first two results may not be good news for them - if the exit poll vote national totals are accurate this means Cons may have performed worse than the exit poll predicts in previously safer areas
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4 Jul 2024
As ever the first result is actually quite a good (if not exact) guide to what is to come with a substantial drop in the Con vote and double-figure swing to @UKLabour
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4 Jul 2024
Sunderland were always going to declare first - it’s what they do!
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