Monday, January 23, 2006

Chris Huhne now shorter odds than Simon Hughes

Chris Huhne has now moved into second place in the betting on the Liberal Democrat leadership contest, reports Steve Guy.

Steve concludes:
Given that so many members strongly identify themselves as 'Mingers' or 'Hughesies', we can guess that they won't be giving many second preference votes to each other. The way I see it, Chris is likely to make it through the first count, and make the headlines with all of the second preference votes propelling him through the finish line.

2 comments:

Peter Pigeon said...

Hghes is back in second place on Betfair.

Anonymous said...

Here's a thought (perish it). Is there any risk that Chris Huhne's name might be mistaken for Geoff Hoon, and should that be a factor in the leadership vote..?