UK General Election, June 8th 2017

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The Financial Times has endorsed May.

Of all the big papers, they seem to be the most pessimistic about Brexit.

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Theresa May's decision to invoke Article 50 before calling an election must have been the biggest blunder in her political career so far: Not only is it unnecessarily wasting precious negotiation time during the withdrawal timer, but by making Brexit truly irrevocable, it also made a moot point of whatever suspicions (justified or not) the electorate might have had about whether Labour would have made the commitment themselves, which would surely have been a campaign issue otherwise.

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Looks like the campaign is about to be suspended again...

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I wouldn't easily rule out polls where Labour are doing (relatively) well, because, if anything, pollsters have the tendency to overcompensate for the direction in which were wrong last time (their underestimation of the Tories in 2015). Of course, one can also take this to the next level and third guess oneself, and so forth.