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Stephen Tall

New Statesman’s advice to Lib Dem-baiters: “Don’t count those pesky Lib Dems out just yet”

By Stephen Tall | Sat 23rd October 2010 - 12:57 pm

The latest YouGov poll showing the Lib Dems at 10%, one of the party’s worst ratings in years, has excited comment, especially and not surprisingly among those who are pleased to see the Lib Dems struggling. Less surprisingly still, YouGov’s fndings attract more publicity among our critics than ICM’s polls, which show the party consistently at or around the 18% mark.

Credit, therefore, to the New Statesman’s Sholto Byrnes for bringing a quality on scarce display in political commentary: a sense of perspective:

Ever since I entered journalism I have noticed how quick many, if not most, commentators and

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