Labour Party Self-destructs
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Labour's general election campaign is in crisis amid damaging rows between senior cabinet ministers and a new poll showing support for the party dropping to a six-month low.

In one particularly bad-tempered incident, Lord Mandelson ordered Harriet Harman, the party's deputy leader, to "shut up" and told her he did not want to hear from her again, in a dispute over election strategy.

The campaign team has also been riven by in-fighting over what should happen if Labour is only able to cling to power in a hung parliament – with one faction accused of encouraging a Liberal Democrat demand that the price for joining a coalition would be Gordon Brown's dismissal as leader. General Election 2010: Labour civil war as support slumps in new poll >>> Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite | Saturday, April 24, 2010

One in Five 'Would Consider Voting BNP' after Nick Griffin Question Time Appearance
THE TELEGRAPH: More than a fifth of the public would consider voting for the British National Party, according to the first opinion poll taken since the appearance of its leader, Nick Griffin, on Question Time.

Support for the party has increased in the last month, a survey for The Daily Telegraph indicated.

The findings will lead to accusations that the BBC’s decision to invite the far-Right MEP on to its flagship current affairs programme may have backfired by giving him a national platform.

The YouGov poll was taken hours after Mr Griffin’s appearance on Thursday, before which anti-fascist protesters rioted outside BBC Television Centre in London.

The survey found that 22 per cent of voters would “seriously consider” voting for the BNP in a future local, general or European election. This included four per cent who said they would “definitely” consider voting for the party, three per cent who would “probably” consider it, and 15 per cent who said they were “possible” BNP voters.

Two-thirds said they would not consider voting for the party “under any circumstances” with the rest unsure. >>> Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent | Friday, October 23, 2009

Support for Sarkozy Falls Yet Again
THE TELEGRAPH: Nicolas Sarkozy spent his "honeymoon" at a steelworks, as the French President sought to show his mind was on the job after his marriage to Carla Bruni.

"As honeymoons go, there’s nothing better," declared the President at the grim ArcelorMittal factory in eastern France, after pledging to do everything in the state’s power to preserve 600 jobs at risk there.

He then flew off to Romania for an official visit.

The president woke up to the news that French support for him had fallen once again, down 13 points from last month to 41 per cent, according to an LH2 poll in Liberation newspaper.

"The divorce", headlined the paper, referring to the growing number of French apparently no longer charmed by the leader they elected only eight months ago.

Only Jacques Chirac has lost support so quickly, according to the pollster, when he launched an austerity drive in 1996 to heal a "social fracture" between the country’s haves and have-nots. Nicolas Sarkozy honeymoons at steelworks >>> By Henry Samuel in Paris

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