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If he can sell this plan to Brussels, it’s game changing – but that’s a big ‘if’.
Behind the showman, there is a very real strategy.
Inequality has reached untenable levels – public spending and wealth taxes are needed.
The Conservative Party has long positioned itself as the voice of law and order – now that’s been shot to bits.
In trying to please everyone, Labour could lose votes on both sides of the Brexit divide.
Based on current trends, the UK could be heading for a hung parliament.
Removing the whip to a group who voted against the government
For much of the 20th Century, UK Conservatives sought to appeal to a broad voter base. The new admiistration is already undermining that ethos.
Findings over the past few months show the two main parties are in terrible shape ahead of this snap vote.
Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson’s career, says the man is hard to pin down.
It’s not actually unusual for a British prime minister to enter power like this. But does Johnson need a mandate more than most?
Parliamentarians and party members have held their noses and voted in a man deeply unsuited to lead. Now the British public must live with their choice.
Two leadership experts weigh up the characteristics of the Conservative Party leadership hopefuls.
In keeping with the permanent state of political misery induced by Brexit, any outcome of the leadership contest and the subsequent UK-EU politics will make almost everyone unhappy.
The favourite to become the next prime minister has never felt the need to apologise for his offensive remarks about Muslim women.
Conservative members will now vote on which of the two candidates will become their party leader – and the prime minister.
If the Conservative MP was really a spook, he wouldn’t be the first to make the leap into parliament.
At the start of this election, party members said they wanted to avoid another ‘coronation’, so why is the lead candidate being allowed to avoid scrutiny?
Johnson is the least popular among women MPs and Jeremy Hunt managed to get a vote from the European Research Group.
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Lancaster University
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Associate Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Hull
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Former Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
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Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Teaching Fellow, Department of History, University of Birmingham
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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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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
