New voting intention poll from ICM - CON 37%, LAB 32%, LDEM 22%.
Iain Dale reports that Sandy Toksvig may stand for the Liberal Democrats in the new Conservative/Lib Dem marginal of Meon Valley.
Profile added for West Ham
Priti Patel selected as Conservative candidate for Witham, Bob Blackman selected as Conservative candidate for Harrow East.
Profiles added for South Basildon and East Thurrock, and Hereford and South Herefordshire.
Anne McIntosh has been selected as the Conservative candidate in Thirsk and Malton. Part of McIntosh’s dismembered Vale of York seat goes into Thirsk and Malton, but it is mainly made up of John Greenway’s Ryedale seat, leaving Greenway currently without a seat to contest at the next election.
Vicki Harris added as Lib Dem candidate for Aberdeen South, Toby Philpott added as Lib Dem candidate in Folkstone & Hythe.
Profile added for Morecambe and Lunesdale, Hemel Hempstead profile updated to reflect planned hospital downgrading.
Hazel Thorpe added as Lib Dem candidate for Worthing West. Deborah Dunleavy added as Conservative candidate for Bolton North East, Ian Oakley added as Conservative candidate for Watford, Andrew Bridgen added as Conservative candidate for Leicestershire North West.
Paul Keetch, the MP for Hereford, has been added to the list of retiring MPs.
Wiltshire North Conservative’s have taken initial steps towards deselecting James Gray, the sitting MP.
Oxford West & Abingdon and Telford.
Profile added for Rochester & Strood.
Martin Vickers has been selected as the Conservative candidate in Cleethorpes, Charlotte Leslie has been selected as Conservative candidate in Bristol North West.
I have added a page showing the differences between my notional figures and those at Martin Baxter’s Electoral Calculus.
Profile added for Wyre Forest and Worcestershire West.
Profiles added for Burton, Dagenham and Rainham and Gravesham.
Richard Grayson selected as Lib Dem candidate in Hemel Hempstead.
Ed Balls search for a seat goes on - it is now reported that he will challenge Colin Challen for the Labour nomination in Morley and Outwood.
The Boundary Commission for England have announced that they formally submitted their final report on the new boundaries to Lord Falconer on the 31st October. The Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 says he is required to lay it before Parliament “as soon as may be after a Boundary Commission have submitted a report to the Secretary of State”, although in practice this took about 10 weeks the last time the boundaries were changed in 1995.
Andrew Percy has been selected as Conservative candidate for Brigg and Goole, leaving the finalists for Cleethorpes next week as Martin Vickers and Alan Lockwood.
The finalists for the open primary to select the Conservative candidate in Bolton West on the 9th November are confirmed as Susan Williams and Stephen Ogden.
Alison Wedgwood selected as Labour candidate in The Wrekin. Profile added for The Wrekin constituency.