Shaun Lawson is an academic who has recently done outstanding work dismantling anti-Labour smears.
This morning, he published a thread showing that the chief executive of polling company Opinium – which last week happened to publish a wildly-outlying poll showing Labour seven points behind the Tories – had just written an article for the Guardian advocating for “a more progressively centrist approach in British politics”.
Or even the formation of a new party:
Great work again by Shaun Lawson.
SKWAWKBOX comment:
Lawson’s unease at the publication of such an article so soon after the author’s company ‘just so happens’ to publish such an outlier poll is hard to disagree with.
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