The SNP, Plaid Cymru and UKIP are the new faces in the UK election in 2015 but they reflect a wider change.
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Miliband throws renters a lifeline but the neediest still miss out on affordable housing.
Not much of the SNP manifesto would make Labour choke, and some rougher areas just got smoother.
At least one party in the UK’s most overlooked region could make or break this election. It’s time to swot up on the local scene.
In British election campaigns, tax has become what American politicians call a third-rail issue – touch it and it will kill you. In the 2015 campaign it has only been mentioned by the parties to attack…
The Labour campaign is coming together – but it still risks falling into the same old traps.
While the SNP’s manifesto is rather thin on immigration pledges, it does make a proposal to attract more international students – a group Scotland needs badly.
The main parties are spending most of their time arguing over the speed and extent of cuts, when they should be talking about growth.
Bradford West’s candidates are locked in a grandiose, mudslinging back-and-forth of character assassination. Who’ll come out on top?
Forget eight years of government, the SNP is anti-establishment.
Nicola Sturgeon faces daily attacks for undermining England. But The Conservatives are hitting new lows with their latest proposal.
Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood has questioned whether the UK should spent 6% of its budget on defence. Has she got her numbers right?
People forget that the SNP backed a minority Labour government in 1976-79 and was undermined by a rogue MP contingent. Nicola Sturgeon may soon have to face the same problem.
The Green Party offers an ambitious health manifesto, wanting to allocate £20 billion more to health care by 2020.
Welfare policy was a political hot potato in the referendum campaign, and it’s a big weapon for the SNP in 2015 too.
The UK is increasingly reliant on the financial services industry, to the detriment of a healthy economy – and the Coalition has been complicit.
Once we’ve voted them in, politicians might just have the guts to make a decision on new flights capacity. But it is likely they will still dodge the decision we really need.
The election campaign has so far skirted round the genuine dangers which face whoever is in Downing Street next month.
Our experts check if Plaid Cyrmu’s policies measure up.
Miliband is resisting, but he may need the SNP. Here’s what could be on Nicola Sturgeon’s wish list.
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