More women and a great ethnic mix but parliament still doesn’t fully reflect the British public.
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The SNP’s big Scottish victory might appear to put full fiscal autonomy right back on the agenda. But here’s why it doesn’t.
After all the speculation, we now know how all the parties fared in the general election. But what about women? Was this a good outcome for them? The answer is a qualified yes. Women comprised a record…
Did anyone tell you this was the “most unpredictable election in years”? There’s a reason for that.
Scotland’s pre-eminent historian analyses the road ahead for Scotland and the United Kingdom.
The British Conservative government’s re-election is the latest and perhaps most startling electoral triumph for Australian political strategist Lynton Crosby. So how did he do it?
Party leader sees resignation rejected as the EU referendum approaches.
Gains for the Tories and obliteration for the Lib Dems as councils are selected — sound familiar?
Parliamentary log-jam, unwilling backbenchers and Conservative preference for first-past-the-post make reform unlikely.
Six hundred years separate two post-election protests, but the issues at hand are strangely similar and the mistakes too easily repeated.
Labour needs to focus on leadership, policies and image, if it’s to bounce back.
Too often, we think of “democracy” as what happens during an election campaign – but it goes much deeper than that.
Now that he commands a majority government, what might Cameron’s demands to the EU be and what’s his worst nightmare?
How did others in Europe cover the election and the surprising results?
Labour, UKIP and the Greens all gained much bigger swings than the Conservatives, but were election losers. The first-past-the-post system let the Tories pick up a swag of seats with a 0.8% swing.
The British election has come and gone, and the results have confounded the expectations of most pollsters. Words such as “historic,” “extraordinary” and “political earthquake” have been used to describe…
Top dogs held over, old debts repaid, Boris pending – Cameron’s fantasy cabinet covers all the bases.
There were two winners on Thursday night and they may well find themselves on a collision course in the new parliament.
Why it is hard to escape the shortcomings of the first-past-the-post electoral process in the UK.
Ed Miliband’s many Blairite critics have formed an orderly queue to tell us why he lost.
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