The current Conservative government has not met actual housing need in England. The proposals in the party’s manifesto are not likely to either.
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More than half of people now support electoral reform.
The Lib Dem manifesto addresses many of the key areas in social care that need reform. But it doesn’t say how the party would pay for them.
It is impossible for politicians to use TikTok for necessary, nuanced discussion around important policy proposals.
Austerity Britain has translated into worse lives for many people: tougher working conditions, minimal statutory services and a retraction of the local state at a time when people need it.
Despite a decade of Northern Powerhouse and levelling up, England remains thoroughly divided.
Sinn Féin continues to abstain from attending the House of Commons but it still runs candidates, both to boost its own position and deny its rivals the seats.
It’s been a terrible few years for unionism’s biggest party, and they could be about to see the fallout.
The effort to get Muslims voting for independents won’t cost Keir Starmer the election – but is that all that matters?
Italy’s prime minister won big in the European elections, leveraging her campaign to bring her exclusionary politics into the mainstream.
Enviroment policies and executive roles now in the spotlight – while France faces a potentially divisive national election.
Ever since the welfare state was established in 1948, Britain’s elected leaders have grappled with how to pay for and deliver social care.
Broadcasters can struggle to report impartially when they have to single out one party for making dubious claims.
The prime minister attempted to play the populist and ended up playing into the hands of Nigel Farage.
People are generally more prone to activating the parts of their brain associated with fear than those linked to rational decision making.
The rule that people vote with the economy in mind stretches back across a government’s lifespan, not just the few weeks before the election.
The multi-party debate is an opportunity for smaller parties to get their messages across.
European voters head to the polls to elect new MEPs – the results will shape who takes the EU’s top jobs.
Commitment to nuclear deterrence has become a de facto criterion for entering No. 10.
Political calculations with Treasury figures can be wide of the mark.
The votes-at-16 story reveals a lot about how people actually consume politics.
Veterans are rightly centered in D-day events but the speeches that invited heads of state deliver bring proceedings into the geopolitical present.
There is something contrived about parties producing detailed plans for a parliament that may well last five years, in a world that is volatile and uncertain.
It was hard to escape the feeling that the would-be leaders are as out of touch as one questioner suggested.
The day’s agenda was already set by Nigel Farage, hours before the two party leaders stepped on stage.