In Spain, left and right stand far apart, questioning each other’s legitimacy to govern as the extreme right gains. Secessionist forces in Catalonia challenge t...
For the past fifty years, public opinion research has converged on a common result: that “the public,” as one political scientist puts it, “is overwhelmingly ig...
The capacity to appeal to both the principles of freedom and belonging whilst shifting the balance between them is key to the long-term political success of the...
Labour’s post-Corbyn membership is overwhelmingly white, well-educated, middle class and middle-aged, and living in southern England. Labour members are dispro...
#Labourlosingwomen, #libdemslosingwomen, #WomenWontWheesht, #SNPleftme. If you are a frequent user of political Twitter, you will have seen one or more of thes...
During the 2019 election, in a country polarised by the Brexit debate with a parliament unable to resolve the issue, the Conservative party skilfully took adva...
Now is a good time to take stock of what the last few years have taught us about British Conservatism.
The UK’s departure from the EU prompted another bout ...
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...
