Thérèse Coffey is Liz Truss’s deputy prime minister – she’ll have to fill the ill-defined shoes of past DPMs.
- Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University
To understand what is going on, it helps to look back at past leaders and their first secretaries.
What happens behind the scenes when one party props up another’s minority government.
History tells us that having a sidekick at Number 10 can be invaluable for a prime minister in trouble.
Both Labour and the Conservatives could do deals with smaller parties to survive in a minority government. Here’s how it works.
The UKIP leader was ignored by most of the other leaders in the seven-way TV debate.
There can be no doubt that Ed Miliband’s leadership is in trouble. After a squeaker of a by-election in Heywood and Middleton, which in turn followed a near-disastrous turn at the party’s Manchester conference…
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