The Political Wire

Dunwoody: 17% swing just ‘mid-term blip’

Defeated Tamsin Dunwoody said that the 17.6 per cent swing that enabled the Conservatives to take Crewe and Nantwich was a ‘mid-term blip’. Speaking immediately after the loss Ms Dunwoody said that a large turnout by Tory voters had played a significant part in the result. She said: “The Conservative voters came out in force, particularly [...]

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EXCTUSIVE – Dunwoody lives in parallel universe

Labour party candidate for Crewe and Nantwich is making a last ditch appeal for votes today, even though the result is already in and the railway town and delivered a resounding defeat to the Labour party, by handing the Tory candidate Edward Timpson a 7000+ majority. Just a thought but, maybe someone should tell the Dunwoody [...]

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Great expectations in Crewe

As the voters in Crewe and Nantich go to the polls, PoliticsHome has released its benchmarking of the outcome, give us a pretty good idea of how the pundit class would treat various results tonight. The PHI100, which is a politically balanced group of Britons most important and influential movers and shakers, are strongly predicting the [...]

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Tamsin Dunwoody supports 42 days detention

Next month, the House of Commons will vote on the Government’s proposal to extend the pre-charge detention limit from 28 to 42 days. Reports suggest that as many as 50 Labour MPs will rebel (The Sunday Times, 11 May 2008), as Gwyneth Dunwoody had rebelled in previous votes on detention limits. Yet in today’s live ‘webchat’, [...]

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Brown orders ‘surge’ to defend Crewe

Gordon Brown has ordered his very own ‘surge,’ and sent his entire cabinet north to try and reclaim the hostile territory of Crewe and Nantwich from the Tory occupying force. In what many analysts believe to be a last ditch attempt stop the advance of the newly reinforced and reinvigorated Conservative party, Field Marshal Brown has [...]

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