- Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
The ‘dark triad’ is made up of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy.
The new leader wants to be radical and a profile of his members suggests they will follow him.
It’s party conference season in Britain, a chance for members to meet and talk through their successes and failures from the election campaign – and start talking strategy for the next. Perhaps inevitably…
Switching political parties is fairly common in Britain. But does that mean parties are being shaped by entryism?
There seems little chance of getting people to agree on the big picture, but even partisans see eye-to-eye sometimes when you get down to the nitty gritty.
She’s meant to be the clear favourite for Corbyn supporters, but Long-Bailey hasn’t won over everyone in Momentum.
Party members who support the former London mayor’s leadership bid describe themselves as very right wing, even by Conservative standards.
The latest figures reveal the Conservatives have fewer women members than they did 25 years ago. And the future looks really firghtening.
They signed up in their droves to vote in the last leadership election, but will they back Corbyn again?
The party members didn’t get a chance to choose their new leader, but their blessing is still important.
How the Brexiters won it on the night.
A survey of party members reveals the hardest workers are also the most likely to leave.
The Conversation’s hot seats series looked at the key marginals. Our panel of experts take a look at the results.
The three marginal seats clustered around Brighton and Hove are hosting a multi-party social media brawl.
As UKIP makes parliamentary gains at every turn, it no longer seems possible to dismiss the party as a group of anti-EU obsessives that has little in common with mainstream politics. The days of the swivel-eyed…
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