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Honeymoon approval ratings for Clegg and Cameron
Coalition Lib Dems slipping in polls

By politics.co.uk staff The Liberal Democrats have been handed a polling setback, slipping below 20% for the first time since the first leaders’ debate. A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times put the Lib Dems on 18%, slipping three points. The Conservatives stood at 40%, up one, while Labour stood unchanged on 32%. Party activists… Read more »

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Alan Johnson considers life on the sidelines
Johnson ‘may do a Davis’

By politics.co.uk staff Shadow home secretary Alan Johnson could copy David Davis by quitting the Commons to fight a single-issue by-election. Mr Davis, who was in the same position when he dramatically resigned his post over the issue of pre-charge detention, has not returned to frontline politics since. But the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported Mr… Read more »