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…
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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…
An important trick of political communications is to ensure that you set the bar low enough for any performance to exceed expectations. In this respect…
This article first appeared in I News The Lib Dems can’t credibly claim to be the alternative government-in-waiting, so they need to work with Labour…
This post first appeared as a blog on The I Paper website… The North Shropshire by-election result is undoubtedly remarkable, with the Lib Dems coming back…
Only six in ten people aged 18-24 turned out to vote in the 2017 general election, compared to a national average of seven in ten….
In the short term, a no-deal exit from the EU may break the current impasse in UK parliament and please the most ardent Brexiteers. But…
Writing about the future of the Conservative Party on the eve this year’s conference feels like the proverbial challenge of pinning jelly to a wall….
Jonathan Swift would be relishing the political havoc which awaits. He would recognise our current Lilliput. A land inhabited by politicians as troublesome and as…
As I watch the woeful spectacle of the appointment of the UK’s next prime minister by an un-representative electoral college that is at the top…
It was exactly 160 years ago, on 9 June 1859, that the various liberal factions that came to make up the Victorian Liberal Party met…