Ed Davey is haunted by his party’s experiences in government with the Conservatives – but there’s a key difference this time around.
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Forecasting is a tricky art but looking back at the relationship between local elections and subsequent general elections puts Labour on course for House of Commons majority.
Labour strategists seem determined to cast Starmer as the sensible ‘adult in the room’, but in order to win lost areas he needs to be much more radical than that.
A new book analyses the Labour politician’s prolific political writing.
Not a knockout blow but important gains for the opposition.
The prime minister is popular, his party is not. Which is more important as we head towards the next election?
There’s a lot to play for in the final big electoral test before the next national vote, especially in northern regions where Labour hopes to make a comeback.
Report found deputy PM to have been abrasive and intimidating to civil servants who have waited months for action to be taken.
Publisher Ernest Moret was detained under terrorism powers for taking part in protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
Newcomers have in fact proven much more successful at running as independents than big name politicians.
Voters now need to take ID to the ballot box in England, despite little evidence that fraud is a problem.
Beyond the ethical questions raised by an ad suggesting the prime minister doesn’t believe in sending sex offenders to prison is the matter of whether such negative campaigning even works.
We wanted to examine not only the experiences that drove asylum seekers to the UK, but also the psychological effects of their experiences in the asylum system.
Bill Clinton and senator George Mitchell were central in keeping the players at the table so that the historical deal could be signed in 1998.
A law making its way through parliament that would grant widespread immunity from prosecution for people accused of crimes during the Troubles.
Secret, behind-the-scenes talks were going on years before the official Belfast Agreement was signed – and made the whole thing possible.
The illegal migration bill is performative politics that allows the Conservatives to blame opponents ahead of a key election.
After a pandemic and over a decade of public spending cuts, young people need investment not punishment.
The UK is now the only democracy where the children of formerly colonised people are running the country that colonised their parents’ and grandparents’ nations.
The SNP’s new leader only just squeaked over the line against his rivals, which is a bad sign for his ambition to take Scotland out of the UK.
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