The laws, regulations and practices around managing elections have accumulated over time to deal with ad-hoc problems and are therefore unfit for purpose in an...
The context of the review
The Labour Together review of the 2019 election was published on 19 June 2020, almost exactly six months after the party suffered ...
The scale of Keir Starmer’s victory in the Labour leadership election suggests a significant shift in opinion has taken place among the party’s grassroots memb...
In the aftermath of Labour’s general election defeat, a new conventional wisdom has rapidly taken hold: Labour, increasingly middle class and out of touch, has...
What do the different wings of the Labour Party actually disagree about? Sometimes it seems like almost everything, in spite of the warm words about party unit...
The clock struck ten and the red wall crumbled, and in came the blue tide. Labour are staring into the abyss, if not already plummeting in it. This was a demis...
Tony Blair consistently draws a distinction between the ‘politics of protest’ and the ‘politics of governance’. His politics mean he’s the ‘guy on the placard’...
Our newly elected prime minister Boris Johnson is infamous for finding it difficult to tell the truth. The general election campaign was littered with untruths...
The fact that
Labour has just suffered its worst general election result since 1935 is being
widely quoted.
It’s meant to be
mark of how bad things are for...
Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an
entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime
minister, even if briefly. Th...
Social media are blamed for almost everything
that is wrong with democracy.
Facebook, twitter and other platforms are held
responsible for pollution of the...
