Even though Keir Starmer is more comfortable being associated with the leaders of the last Labour government than Jeremy Corbyn or Ed Miliband, this is not a return to the past.
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First past the post tends to deliver the winning party more seats in parliament than they’d get under a truly proportional voting system – but this year is off the charts.
Are Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves focusing on the same criteria for economic competence as Britain’s voters?
Labour’s deputy leader has said she will resign if she is found to have committed a criminal offence in relation to her registered home address ten years ago.
Should Rayner have to stand down over a housing scandal, the party would have to run a distracting internal election.
Labour’s Muslim vote is concentrated in safe seats – but with an electoral mountain to climb, no contest can be taken for granted.
Instead of voting on a ceasefire, the House of Commons descended into furious arguments between MPs and the speaker.
Disillusioned Conservative voters have had a string of opportunities to make their voices heard.
Just as the UK looks set to return to grown up politics, everyone else is installing radicals.
Keir Starmer’s flagship climate change pledge has already been cut back significantly since 2021.
Tooth decay is the most common reason why young children aged from five to ten are admitted to hospital.
After years of tumult in the ruling Conservative party, Labour looks set to take office. But it is no sure bet, and could be off the back of a large scale disaffection from the wider public.
Ramsay MacDonald was Labour’s first ever PM but he ended up being booted out of the party he helped found.
The victims of the Horizon scandal had no political constituency and served no existing partisan debate.
There are reasons to hold off until the autumn – but there are other clues that still point towards May.
What does the future hold for Wales and Welsh Labour in the wake of Drakeford’s resignation?
Data across multiple decades suggests Starmer will benefit from giving the impression that he is shifting to the right.
Labour frontbencher Imran Hussain has resigned over the party’s failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza.
Sunak wants everyone to be better at maths. Here’s what taking his own advice would mean for his election campaign.
The results represent more than just dissatisfaction with local MPs – the national picture has shifted.
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Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Global Affairs, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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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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Professor of Modern British History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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