"As site regulars will know I have theory, based on nearly three years of records, that the single most important driver in the CON-LAB poll numbers is the amount of media coverage that Cameron gets. If he’s been making the headlines or leading the bulletins then his party’s ratings go up - if he’s been blanked out of the news agenda then there will be a decline.
This is about the quantity of coverage not the quality.
So if I am right a big factor behind the recent moves back to Labour has been that the economic crisis has been so overwhelming that the Tory leader has found it hard getting a look in. He even missed his weekly opportunity last Wednesday when at the last minute Brown decided to go AWOL from PMQs - a move that I feel we have not heard the last of."
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One of the long-standing techniques used by the BBC is to allow a Conservative response (to be quoted by a newsreaders) of one word only, thus satisfying their legal/charter obligation of including a "response" but at the minimum possible.
We've all heard in BBC news items the bit at the end that includes this. Well, that's why.
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