Psephological News: advance spoilers from #British Election Study @BESResearch to be published in Dec 2019, also indicates half the electorate are now floating voters @BBCNormanS @JohnRentoul @smitharrytv @jonsnowC4 @krishgm @michaelwhite @MSmithsonPB @LordAshcroft @OwenJones84 pic.twitter.com/NrqOtQwZXB

— Mark J Smith (@MarkJSmithonMSN) October 8, 2019

The UK is heading into the most unpredictable and volatile general election campaign in decades, according to a major academic study of the electorate over the past 10 years https://t.co/W1ApX6rlSz

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) October 9, 2019

In our @BESResearch book, 'electoral shocks' shape elections, partly through reactive party competition. They are: abrupt changes to status quo, salient, relevant to party politics. The environment needs to get political - and mainstream - for politicians to really compete on it. https://t.co/Ke73FSb7ez

— Jane Green (@ProfJaneGreen) October 9, 2019