Here, users will be able to vote for leaders of the three main political parties along with the Labour Cabinet Ministers. The site will average out all the votes cast and display a unique 5 star rating for each politician. An exclusive graph will also be on display to show how their popularity and support from the public has changed over time.

I am sorry to say that the Political Hearsay forum has been inactive for the past few weeks. It has just been brought to my attention by one of the forum members. The website developer has been informed and we hope it will be active again very soon.

 Apologies for any inconvenience.

Two new polls have been added to Political Hearsay, one of which asks whether you think the current 28 day detention limit for terror suspects should be extended to 56.

A thread has also been opened on the forum, under Law, Justice, Crime & Punishment , so you can give your views.

Proposals to lower the voting age to 16 have been unanimously backed at the SNP annual conference. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has already called for a debate on whether 16-year-olds should have a vote.

We want to whether you think the voting age should be lowered to 16. Have your say by voting in our brand new poll now!

Why not comment on this subject by using our forum? Give your opinions by going to the Political Tearoom - but don't forget to register first!

The Labour transport secretary Ruth Kelly has commented on Political Hearsay after being told about her rating of just 0.3.

In a short interview with This Is Lancashire, Miss Kelly said she "can only congratulate Darren for his efforts to re-engage people with politics". Since the article was published last wednesday her rating has gone up slightly to 0.5, but it still remains one of the worst scores on the site.

You can read the full article here .

We are pleased to announce that Political Hearsay was today featured in The Daily Telegraph on page six. Under news in brief, the article headline read 'New website to re-engage voters'.

In addition to this, Darren Andrews yesterday made an appearance on BBC WMs drive time show at 5:50pm to promote the site. The interview went extremely well.

Ming Campbell has now been replaced by the Liberal Democrat Environment Secretary, Chris Huhne. This comes in light of the party leadership being between Huhne and the strong favourite, Nick Clegg.

Campbell departed from Political Hearsay with one-hundred-and-eleven votes averaging out a rating of 3.2, the highest of all three party leaders.

We are pleased to say that Political Hearsay has recieved well over 1,300 votes since it went live just a few weeks ago.

Having monitered the votes from the very start, we can safely state that William Hague has always held the highest rating (excluding the 10 recently added politicans). He has currently recieved over 80 votes averaging out a rating of 3.9, which is still some way above his closest rival Ming Campbell.

Early ratings are showing that the Conservative shadow cabinet ministers are held in a much higher regard than that of Labour.

William Hague is the politician with the highest rating closely followed by his colleague, David Davis and Liberal Democrat leader Ming Campbell.

Despite the Conservative leader, David Cameron, having the lowest rating of the four Conservative members, he is still rated higher than the Prime Minister Gordon Brown. However, Ming Campbell tops the polls out of all three party leaders.