DUP leader Peter Robinson may be facing a quandary on May 8.
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Everyone is assuming that the DUP would do a deal with the Tories after the election if the option arose. Everyone may be wrong.
The parties seem to be misreading the signs.
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A group of 17 million voters is being ignored by the main parties. Why might that be?
UK politics is no longer a political tango for two, as this party leaders’ debate illustrated.
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Voters in the UK are again looking beyond the traditional two-party system and look set to put paid to a famous proposition of political science.
Page five of your textbooks class.
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With smaller parties piling on the pressure, what is the magic number for Labour or the Conservatives?
Nicola Sturgeon unveiling SNP women’s strategy on April 25.
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The main parties are still a long way from getting full marks when it comes to tackling women’s financial disadvantages.
Odd man out.
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In a recent interview with Scottish Television’s Debi Edwards, the leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon spoke about the sexism she routinely encounters. Referring to the fact that her appearance is regularly…
Conservatives pledge to get police in line in bid to improve public confidence.
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When it comes to crime and justice, the Conservatives don’t convince.
‘Stone, scissors, paper.’
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Ruling out a Labour arrangement with the Scottish nationalists will matter little after the election.
Not a stellar record.
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The Conservatives are livid at Ed Miliband’s criticism of Cameron’s foreign policy record. Perhaps it cuts too deep.
Where are they all going?
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While all election campaigns are different – and this one is more different than most – there’s usually an incident or two that gives the political obsessive a pleasant reminder of bygone days. So far…
Will this generation of politicians’ children choose science?
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Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have pledged to do as much as retain the current level of funding in their manifestos, despite their enthusiastic comments about science in the UK.
Michelle Gildernew riding high in 2010.
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After winning Fermanagh and South Tyrone by four votes in 2010, Sinn Fein won’t let it go without a fight.
Miliband might have to canvas some more after the election.
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Both Labour and the Conservatives could do deals with smaller parties to survive in a minority government. Here’s how it works.
Is that you, Contribsx?
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From Grant Shapps to the Cameronettes, the best and worst of the internet for the last week of #GE2015.
Yes, the environment can be a vote winnner.
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Labour leader didn’t bash Cameron as hard as predicted on Libya.
Still smoking: Redcar’s Corus Steel plant.
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After losing the seat in 2010, Labour parachuted in a former advisor from Islington to reclaim Redcar and Cleveland – but the Greens may have played a surprise trump card.
Pondering Prime Minister Miliband?
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The press doesn’t have as much sway with voters as it once did, but it still sets the boundaries of debate.
I don’t need to look where I’m going. It’s all in the plan.
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George Osborne’s favourite catchphrase has a long tradition.
Staff should be at the centre of NHS reforms.
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Management and financial performance measures are only a small part of the story of how we maintain the NHS.
“You don’t know what you’re doing!” - Tory sport plans are not enough.
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Conservative sport manifesto puts the elite ahead of the grassroots.