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The SNP are the only major party that is yet to show its manifesto hand. Here’s why it’s probably not worth changing your plans to read it.
Launching their 2015 election manifesto, the Liberal Democrats have sought to grab the political agenda with the words “from cradle to college”. So far, other parties have focused on the economy, healthcare…
Cameron spoke with considerable authority, and apparent sincerity. The problem lay not in the style, but rather the content.
Labour has become the first of the three bigger parties to publish an election manifesto. And while the document reiterates familiar themes, it also presents something of a departure. The emphasis is very…
UKIP is using the rhetoric of women’s rights to make racism look progressive.
One of Scottish Labour’s problems is that its most talented politicians prefer to be in Westminster rather than Holyrood. The reverse is true for the Scottish Nationalists. However, there are exceptions…
The SNP won’t hold a second independence referendum until it knows it can win. That is an obvious statement, but it seems to have been missed by the party’s opponents. They should be pushing SNP leader…
In one of my previous articles, I likened social media to a war zone during elections. If this is the case, then the Respect Party candidate in Bradford West is a the political equivalent of Rambo. A one-man…
The next government may have a teachers’ strike on its hands within months if it fails to address what unions have called a schools funding crisis. The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to…
Will no one come to the rescue of Britain’s beleaguered political pundits? Seemingly not. Those revered traditional game-changers of UK elections – the budget, a bruising interview with Jeremy Paxman…