All smiles for the Conservatives.
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May 7, 2015
Fran Amery , University of Bath ; Catherine Happer , University of Glasgow ; Charles Lees , University of Bath ; Craig McAngus , University of Stirling ; David Cutts , University of Bath ; Eric Shaw , University of Stirling ; Jennifer Thomson , Queen Mary University of London ; John Van Reenen , London School of Economics and Political Science ; Jonathan Tonge , University of Liverpool ; Louise Thompson , University of Surrey ; Michael Saward , University of Warwick ; Neil Matthews , Queen's University Belfast ; Peter Lynch , University of Stirling ; Rainbow Murray , Queen Mary University of London ; Roger Awan-Scully , Cardiff University ; Sophie Whiting , University of Liverpool ; Stuart Wilks-Heeg , University of Liverpool , and Victoria Honeyman , University of Leeds
Experts provide a rolling response, live as the results come in for the 2015 general election.
On May 8, a new battle begins.
Danny Lawson/PA
One of the consequences of the SNP’s rise is that the new UK government will have very few seats in Scotland. This looks set to become a hot potato after the election.
The PM does plain talk on BBC Question Time, April 30.
Stefan Rousseau/PA
From spontaneous selfies to the spin room, the communications gurus have excelled themselves this time around
It might become a great engineer, but will unlikely be a very good social worker.
Marc Palumbo/Flickr
More STEM education isn’t a bad thing, but if we want to safeguard our jobs from being taken by machines, we need more emphasis on the humanities.
Policing the jobless.
Andy Rain/EPA
Labour’s Jim Murphy and the Conservatives’ Ruth Davidson clashed over targets for sanctioning people on benefits. Who was right?
Labour leader ruled out any SNP deals on Question Time.
Stefan Rousseau/PA
A Tory election win is the best scenario for the SNP. If Labour squeak home, it will need to find a better way forward
The mother of all crossroads.
Lightspring
The only way to seize the initiative back from the SNP is to build on the Smith Commission through a new Scottish Constitutional Convention
Don’t turn around.
Lewis Whyld/PA Wire
Ed Miliband says Labour did not overspend when it was last in office. He’s right.
Oh no. Are they coming this way?
EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
A coalition would solve Labour’s short-term number problem and could damage Sturgeon’s plans in the long term.
He’s back - again.
Andrew Milligan/PA
As the Scottish Nationalists gear up for a big win on May 7, the contribution of one man is in danger of being overlooked
Wishing it doesn’t make it so.
EPA/Nigel Roddis
A minority Labour administration might govern the UK despite finishing runner-up in both England and Scotland.
Good deeds don’t always work out that way.
Nailia Schwartz
Politicians promising to expand free childcare is no bad thing, but it is difficult to deliver in practice
A new politics?
Bill Hume
The SNP has changed the way Scottish people think about politics, something no party has achieved for decades.
‘Best job in the world’
Andrew Milligan/PA
Labour’s Scottish position could not be any more grim. Here are some suggestions for the long road back to contention.
Yvette Cooper out on the beat.
Ian Nicholson/PA Archive
Labour and the Lib Dems have clashed over whether crime is going up or down. Which is it?
Jim Murphy in a spin.
Danny Lawson/PA
Labour leader Jim Murphy is raising concerns that a big victory for Nicola Sturgeon will mean another referendum. Here’s why they’re wide of the mark.
Priced out?
Yui Mok/PA Wire
Miliband’s plans to stop landlords hiking up rents won’t fix the housing supply problem.
Miliband has been wooing student voters.
Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Labour’s Ed Miliband says that advantaged pupils are much more likely to go to university. Is he right?
DUP leader Peter Robinson may be facing a quandary on May 8.
Peter Morrison/PA
Everyone is assuming that the DUP would do a deal with the Tories after the election if the option arose. Everyone may be wrong.
Nicola Sturgeon unveiling SNP women’s strategy on April 25.
Danny Lawson/PA
The main parties are still a long way from getting full marks when it comes to tackling women’s financial disadvantages.