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Sunak recently attacked ‘30 years of the status quo’ and promptly appointed a man who governed for six of those years to his top team.
While UK governments last longer than average, cabinet secretaries have below average tenure.
Rishi Sunak’s former home secretary thinks she is speaking for the silent majority but most people disagree with her on key points – or have other things to worry about.
Cameron heads straight into the House of Lords so that he can join Rishi Sunak’s top team following the reshuffle triggered by the downfall of Suella Braverman.
Members of diasporas may choose to identify with multiple homelands and host countries over time.
There are plenty of valuable parallels to be drawn from the Good Friday peace process that might be applied to Braverman’s thinking on protests. But she instead chose to inflame tensions.
Why creating an independent regulator is a good move.
The picket lines have brought surprising levels of success.
Labour frontbencher Imran Hussain has resigned over the party’s failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza.
Allowing people to consent to ‘conversion therapy’ would contradict UK and international law.
The monarch has to read the speech whether he agrees with it or not.
Sunak wants everyone to be better at maths. Here’s what taking his own advice would mean for his election campaign.
Fewer people are being ‘socialised’ into Conservative voting since the dominance of New Labour in the 1990s.
Giving evidence to the COVID inquiry, Boris Johnson’s former adviser exposed the dysfunction of an administration lacking in the expertise needed to manage a crisis.
After a post-referendum drop in the polls, Labor has bounced back.
A crisis abroad has exposed multiple disagreements at home.
The results represent more than just dissatisfaction with local MPs – the national picture has shifted.
More and more people are saying they don’t trust the news or can’t face engaging with it – and that appears to have political implications.
The need for the Labour leader to reclaim his personal narrative had become urgent – so did he succeed?
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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
