The Labour MP was friends with Margaret Thatcher, but certainly didn’t agree that there’s ‘no such thing as society’.
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Infamy, infamy everyone’s got it infamy. Truss’s book turns out to be great textbook on leadership.
Public goods like clean air and a stable climate demand more democratic planning, not less.
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.
Religious leaders are vital links for health services looking to counter vaccine hesitancy.
Are Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves focusing on the same criteria for economic competence as Britain’s voters?
Whether true or not, the UK’s political parties have failed to quash the perception that they prioritise cities.
The increasing cost of living may be denting support for the Labor government.
The Bank of England and the OBR hold politicians back, but with good reason.
When the public sees an institution is failing, they generally lose trust in it. Not so with the health service.
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.
The first-past-the-post electoral system has helped the Conservatives stay in power for much of the past century. Now it could lock them out.
When rightwing politicians talk of bringing back greatness, they are doing it for a reason.
British elections are pencil and papers affairs, which makes them difficult to hack. But the breach of millions of people’s details is still a deeply serious matter.
‘Securonomics’ examined.
Mordaunt is predicted to lose her seat at the election so it’s now or never for her – but the path to victory is laden with obstacles.
Vaughan Gething succeeds Mark Drakeford as Welsh first minister, following a vote in the Senedd.
As the Trump v Biden contest shapes up ahead of the US presidential election in November, the polls are not favourable to the incumbent president.
Economic inactivity is not always the worst option.
Top contributors
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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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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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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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, Edge Hill University
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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Teaching Fellow, Department of History, University of Birmingham
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
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British Politics Lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
