What should we make of the extraordinary election campaign we’ve just lived through – where, as Rory Stewart said, 99 per cent of Boris Johnson’s…
What should we make of the extraordinary election campaign we’ve just lived through – where, as Rory Stewart said, 99 per cent of Boris Johnson’s…
Click the video to watch the replay of our Meet the Leaders event with Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE and Professor Tim Bale where they discussed…
Innumerable polls and electoral statistics are being pored over in anticipation of the 2024 General Election. One of the more instructive sets of data is,…
Will the Conservatives re-emerge? Or could they even go out of business altogether? Join political scientist, Professor Tim Bale, author of The Conservative Party after…
So Sunak has called an election. The surprise decision feels designed to bring us up short: maybe there’s more to the guy than we’d thought. …
Attempting to draw conclusions about the outcome of yesterday’s elections with little more than a third of the votes counted is a complete mug’s game,…
The Conservatives seek to frame pretty much every general election (with the exception of “Get Brexit Done”) as Tory tax cuts versus Labour spend. …
I have a growing concern. A well-functioning democracy, something which I hope that in years to come the UK will once again be recognised for,…
“The night of three by-elections gave just enough of a split decision for all sides to claim victory,” wrote Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian on…
1997 or 1992? For those unable or unwilling to recall these totemic elections, here’s a reminder. In 1992, after 11 years of Margaret Thatcher and…
There is a line in James Graham’s play This House, about the Tory and L:abour whips offices from 1974 to 1979. Graham puts it into the mouth…
Well, I think the mystery of where Liz Truss bunked off to has been solved. She was not, as Penny Mordaunt had wink-nudged, under a…