Blog | Iain Dale

Twenty Predictions For Election Night

4 May 2015

Just as in 2010 there will be queues outside polling stations at 10pm and people won’t be allowed to vote. Politicians will declare their outrage and say that something must be done to prevent it happening again. Just like 2010. There will be reports of voter...

How Would Parliament Work if the SNP Get 50 Seats?

3 May 2015

No one has so far thought about the consequences for Parliament of the SNP gaining a shed load of seats. Let’s imagine that they do as well as the pollsters say and they get something around 50 seats. There are a number of consequences to that for the operation of Parliament. ...

ConHome Diary: How Not to Motivate Your Troops

3 May 2015

In my latest series of how CCHQ wins friends and influences people, let me bring you this email which was sent to Team 2015 miscreants who, in their opinion hadn’t turned up often enough to campaign for the party in marginal seats… Dear xxx- We’ve been sending you a few e...

It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 26: Reviewing the New Jon Gaunt Podcast

2 May 2015

What any radio presenter needs is ‘stickability’. You need to give the audience a reason to stick with you rather than twiddle the knob and tune into a different station. In commercial radio that’s doubly important, as the presenter isn’t in total control of that because of th...

My Final Election Prediction: Minority Government Looms

2 May 2015

So, at long last I’ve completed my final election predictions, seat by seat, region by region. My final prediction is this… *Conservative 276 Labour 267 Liberal Democrat 23 UKIP 5 SNP 54 Plaid Cymru 4 Respect 1 Green 1 DUP 9 Sinn Fein 5 SDLP 3 Independent 2 If I am right, co...

Final General Election Predictions 63: Teesside

2 May 2015

Back in January I predicted the outcome of the General Election, seat by seat. Since then, I have done more research and altered some of the predictions taking into account various issues including new updated constituency polls by Lord Ashcroft. Over the next ten days I will ...

Final General Election Predictions 62: Tyne & Wear

2 May 2015

Final General Election Predictions 61: Northern Ireland

2 May 2015

New Statesman Diary: Shitting on My Own Doorstep (And On Ken Livingstone)

2 May 2015

Seven years ago I wrote a column for GQ predicting that Ed Miliband would succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party. He was Cabinet Office minister at the time. Ever since then, even though his politics and mine are far apart I’ve felt I had something invested in him....