NOW THE TIMES CORROBORATES SLOG’S INSISTENCE THAT TORIES ARE WINNING BIG IN THE MARGINALS


A good week after the Slog revealed Tory strengths in the marginals, the Wapping crowd have finally caught up…for the time being

This morning The Times ran with this story:

‘Conservative strategists believe the party is significantly more popular in swing seats that have been the target of campaign spending by Lord Ashcroft, the party’s deputy chairman. They believe that their advantage in constituencies such as the 11 Lib Dem marginals in the South West, is between three and eight percentage points higher than the national polls that currently point to a hung Parliament’.

We have argued consistently that this is the case. It’s just the The Times is, um, behind the times….by twelve days.

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