John Curtice

John Curtice
John Kevin Curtice, FRSA, FRSE, FBA is a political scientist who is currently Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Senior Research Fellow at NatCen Social Research. He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour and researching political and social attitudes. He took a keen interest in the debate for Scottish independence...
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The big crucial difference is that the opposition's still not terribly popular.
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If Labor do lose a very large number of seats, it will be well and truly a disaster.
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It's the moment that MPs start worrying about their seats that Blair has to worry.
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People like Simon Hughes are still burdened by the mores of the generation they grew up in.
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The thing that would make me say this is more than something you can dismiss as exceptional local circumstances is that it fits a new bigger pattern.