The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around the main parties. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data.

Issue 20 - 08/02/2010 - 17:00

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 285

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Telegraph - The Conservatives continue to emphasise a new ‘special relationship’ with India
2. Evening Standard - Petition power
3. Independent - Clegg hints Tories may make better coalition partner
4. Public Service - Tories are ‘back-pedalling on localism’
5. Independent Minds - Amol Rajan: The silence of British conservatives on Sarah Palin

Party sentiment score: -5 (Variation in the past 24 hours: -2)
Leader sentiment score: +4 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +4)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 179

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Conservative Home - Gordon Brown’s electoral reforms would increase Labour’s advantage
2. House of Twits - Can Labour win back women voters?
3. Guardian - Gordon Brown declares: ‘Labour can still win: I’m absolutely sure of it’
4. Guardian - Gordon Brown attacks ‘scandal’ of Lord Ashcroft donations
5. The Way We Are - Shouldn’t Gordon Brown be much more unpopular than this?

Party sentiment score: -5 (24 hour variation: -2)
Leader sentiment score: +8 (24 hour variation: +8)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 69

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Electoral Calculus
2. Spectator - Clegg must resist Brown’s sweet nothings
3. BBC News - Paramedic claims Lib Dem AM Mick Bates assaulted him
4. David Cornock - Lib Dems turn drama into a story
5. Independent - Clegg hints Tories may make better coalition partner

Party sentiment score: +1 (24 hour variation: -8)
Leader sentiment score: +23 (24 hour variation: +23)

New MPs/PPCs on Twitter:

@Jeremy_Hunt - Conservative MP for South West Surrey

@KevinSWard - Liberal Democrat PPC for Glasgow East

@Freeman_George - Conservative PPC for Mid Norfolk

@greglovelluk Labour PPC for Chippenham (also standing in Chippenham: @duncanhames and @wilfred4change)

@denishealy Lib Dem PPC for Hull North (also standing in Hull North: @dianajohnsonmp)

Posted at Mon, Feb 8th 2010, 17:37
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