Tories top polls as economy improves

The Conservatives have overtaken Labour in the polls ahead of the next general election. Emily Hohler.

Labour's party political broadcast, entitled The Un-credible Shrinking Man and featuring Nick Clegg as a Tory stooge who is bullied by his out-of-touch Tory colleagues, proves that the Labour Party is "slowly but surely going clinically insane", says Dan Hodges on his Daily Telegraph blog.

Instead of trying to win the next general election by convincing the nation it has some serious policies, the people who run it are "living out a self-indulgent student fantasy" in which they get to strike poses, and shout slogans and scream "Toff!" at every Tory they see.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.