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🧵 Two months ago today, we released our final voting intention poll of the General Election. Today we are releasing the findings of our early investigations into where we think our polls did well, and where we want to improve for next time...

We are also publishing the raw microdata behind the poll, and will continue to do this for voting intention polls in the future. We hope that this level of transparency allows other researchers to test their own theories and explore live opinion data in a new level of detail.

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As John must surely be aware the council doesn't get to keep most of the money. This has always been the big problem with right to buy.

New paper in JEPP! Do minorities in politics face higher standards in candidate recruitment? Theodor Thisell and I study whether more loyalty is expected of women, youth, and immigrant candidates, using a conjoint experiment and roll-call data. doi.org/10.1080/135017…

The 1700 page Grenfell Inquiry report has been published. It finds the catastrophe was the result of “decades of failure” by central government to prevent the spread of combustible cladding alongside the “systematic dishonesty” of huge companies whose products spread the fire.

Would be great to see similar attention from cabinet ministers on the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been unable to book driving tests for the last four years. Unlike the Oasis reunion tour, that actually IS a public service that the government is responsible for!

So BBC Breakfast find 90 private tutors in the UK have been convicted of sexual offences involving children over the past 20 years. People offering private lessons do not have to be checked before working with young people That has to change immediately

I was very disappointed that Which did not tackle menopause. More people will have than are vegan or vegetarian. Huge supplements market with some evidence for magnesium etc for common symptoms. Which? pls do better! The supplements you do and don't need which.co.uk/reviews/nutrit…

My unironic top career for young people in any career is: get really good at emails. Answer them quickly, politely, and accommodatingly. This will earn you huge amounts of brownie points in the eyes of the geriatric millennials who will be your bosses for the next decade or so

ABSOLUTELY

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I'd missed this astonishing Tory leadership rule. The ability to extract huge sums from party benefactors tells us nothing about the candidates' ability to be prime minister or leader of the opposition. But it ensures they'll begin their leadership in thrall to wealthy donors.

PSA: ignore all polls like this unless they follow up with “how much more tax?” We did, and the answers were pretty amazing.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Moeen Ali has announced his retirement from international cricket! An incredible player for England throughout the years, and an even better bloke ❤️

On top of these other excellent emailing tips I’ll add: if you really truly cannot answer as it would take too long, you don’t have time etc, still reply to say “I got your email, sorry I can’t do it /not now, but I will come back to it” (better to say no than not reply!!)

Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for President - and signed it "Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady". Quick thread on the potential impacts of this statement on the US election 🧵👇🏻

200+ attendees, 40 panels, 2 roundtables, 1 Celine Dion masterpiece and 2 very happy organisers. Recovering from #epop2024, see you next year in Exeter #epop2025! Marta Cantijoch

Andy Burnham here making an intervention ahead of budget/conference -HMT “saying no” to everything could harm growth - clarity needed on whether it’s just a ministry for controlling public spending or one focused on growing the economy (incl outside SE) on.ft.com/3ZxMxoJ