The emergence of ageing left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as the unlikely frontrunner in the Labour Party leadership contest signals that many British voters reject what politics has become.
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Best of times, worst of times: How leadership elections and an EU referendum are conspiring to leave party donations on the backburner just when it seems most possible to make a difference.
For the last 30 years, politics has been dominated by a succession of bright young things. Could Corbyn change that?
Two parties. Two rivals. Two plans. One surprisingly similar outcome.
If anyone other than Jeremy Corbyn is to become the next Labour leader, they will have to address the party’s fatalism about 2020.
If you ignore the spoiling campaign being run by the press, the left-winger’s campaign platform begins to appear eminently sensible.
Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of being unelectable as a Labour leader. Could this be true?
All four leadership hopefuls have a political position — but only one is actually saying what it is.
It’s increasingly apparent that the Labour Party is muddling through a period of existential crisis. This week’s welfare bill debacle, where 48 MPs wilfully defied the interim leadership’s call for abstention…
Studies from the world of business give some insights into how potential leaders can navigate out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
The nominations are in and a long contest lies ahead.
Why do people continue to think the former Foreign Secretary would have made a better leader than his brother, Ed?
Conservative political parties did not conjure up English nationalism, they capitalised on a growing trend.
‘Shy Tories’ doesn’t cut it. There is another anomaly in the election poll data which offers a more useful angle on what went wrong.
Chuka Umunna was not the person for the job, but neither is anyone else in contention.
The centrist strategy that worked for New Labour won’t work for the party going forward.
Ed Miliband’s many Blairite critics have formed an orderly queue to tell us why he lost.
Three parties must now choose new leaders. Labour has a number of candidates jockeying for position.
Such an unexpected general election result was bound to throw up more than its share of ‘Portillo moments’.
A stunning surprise put the Conservatives back in power with no need for a coalition, while the Scottish nationalists stormed to victory north of the border. What now?
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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