With 41 percent of his MPs united against him, Johnson is unlikely to last long – or get much done if he does.
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The Tory party is a ‘broad church’ with many factions. And many of them are unimpressed with the prime minister at the moment.
Politics professor Jon Tonge was pretty much spot on with his prediction for the result of the no-confidence vote. Here’s how he calculated the result.
With 40% of his MPs voting against his leadership, how realistic are the prime minister’s hopes for survival?
The prime minister has survived by 211 votes to 148.
Scandals and a misguided war on woke have cost Australia’s conservatives their voter base, opening the path for Labor.
The report on lockdown parties at Number 10 relied heavily on WhatsApp transcripts to show wrongdoing.
Instead of facing Sue Gray’s findings like a leader, the prime minister again engages in deceit, deflection and denial.
Boris Johnson’s Downing Street indulged in excessive drinking and parties while gathering was illegal – but is there enough evidence against the PM personally?
The ministerial code states that misleading parliament is a offence requiring a resignation. But it’s the prime minister himself who decides if the rule has been broken.
The plan to cut 91,000 civil service jobs could make service delivery impossible after decades of decline.
Foreign secretary Liz Truss wants to amend UK law to unilaterally rewrite the Brexit settlement it signed with the EU.
Even after paying a police fine for partygate, the prime minister continues to fail to accept responsibility for his own actions.
‘Cancel culture’ didn’t exist at all in the British mainstream media in 2017 – but in 2021 there were an astonishing 3,670 articles that used the term.
The question of whether the Labour leader broke the rules in Durham Miners Club will come down to whether the gathering was ‘reasonably necessary’ for work or election campaigning.
There is a strong correlation between local election results and general election results two years later. If that pattern holds, Johnson’s parliamentary majority is at risk.
MP Neil Parish resigned after using porn in the House of Commons – but his case is not as rare as we might think.
Votes are for people who decide incredibly important aspects of our lives, yet they are portrayed as an opportunity to punish the government.
What’s happening in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales this Thursday.
The party has long dominated but the scale of the lead raises questions about why the Conservatives are experiencing such unprecedented unpopularity.
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
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Teaching Fellow, Department of History, University of Birmingham
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British Politics Lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
