That special election showed there's some real disenchantment with conservatives in general and in a district that was supposed to be safely Republican.

I showed empirically that in the general election those crossover voters stayed with the candidate they had crossed over to support in the primary. A lot of Republicans preferred her in 1976 and stayed with her.

At 20 percent plus two days before the election, the number of undecided is higher than before any other general election.

We showed some grit to get back into it. We didn't do anything special, the players just put it on themselves and elevated their game.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.