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Arguably, the two best prime ministers in recent history were the ones with the least experienced teams.
A former Labour minister on how to keep the parliamentary party happy and the conversation constructive.
Repeating negative messaging can have a sleeper effect, and influence people’s views in the longer term.
The next government faces the daunting challenge of delivering for a public that has lost faith in the idea that it can change anything.
Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Ed Davey and John Swinney faced a live studio audience, some of whom ended up losing their temper with the politicians.
Boundary changes are making this election difficult to map, so we turned to the census.
Cleo Watson, former co-deputy chief of staff to Boris Johnson, was fined in the infamous “PartyGate” scandal involving gatherings held at government buildings while the United Kingdom was under a pandemic…
The absence of ideas about Britain’s direct neighbour and trading partner is only storing problems for the future.
Rishi Sunak hasn’t actually lost this election yet – but you wouldn’t know it after listening to his colleagues.
The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
Data from Ukip’s performance in 2017 shows that once a certain tipping point is passed, Reform is indeed a significant threat to the Tories.
Comparing Keir Starmer’s 2024 election manifesto with Tony Blair’s 1997 document is a helpful way to understand why the vision is grander than is being portrayed.
Keir Starmer’s manifesto stops short of the abolition Gordon Brown had wanted, but some immediate changes are confirmed.
These so-called ‘mega polls’ all give Labour massive majorities – but all of different sizes. What’s going on?
More than half of people now support electoral reform.
There is something contrived about parties producing detailed plans for a parliament that may well last five years, in a world that is volatile and uncertain.
It was hard to escape the feeling that the would-be leaders are as out of touch as one questioner suggested.
The 2010 general election put immigration front and centre of the political landscape for the next 14 years.
Research from political science shows that rightwing voters respond to narratives that harken back to a better time.
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Birmingham, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Associate Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
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Associate Tutor in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Communication, University of Liverpool
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University