Deborah Mabbett
The Conservatives expected to win in 2017, and the manifesto was written accordingly. For the small team in Number 10, it was an opportunity ...
Chris Allen
Chris Allen
Following the news that West Midlands Police have arrested five serving members of the British army on suspicion of being membe...
Simon Lightfoot, Emma Mawdsley and Balázs Szent-Iványi
Simon Lightfoot
Theresa May’s announcement prior to the election that the “0.7% commitment remai...
Ben Jackson
At the outset of the 2017 election campaign there seemed to be a good chance that the Labour Party would be broken – possibly irreparably – on the...
Colin Crouch
Theresa May’s claim that the Conservative party is the true representative of working people at the wrong end of society’s inequalities is surrea...
Jörg Michael Dostal
Sometimes the (ir-)relevance of ‘academic’ articles rises and falls before their ultimate publication. This is the case with my paper on ...
The controversy about increasing admissions to Britain’s surviving grammar schools has re-opened old, half-forgotten, lines of political controversy. The resul...
Coalition government at Westminster did not end in 2015: that much is now becoming apparent. In place of two leaders of identifiable parties shaking hands in th...
The motor industry is still being rocked by the revelation that Volkswagen installed software that falsified the results of diesel emissions tests. But this is ...
Party politics has long been associated with narratives of decline. Falls in party membership, loyalty and participation seem to indicate that parties are in cr...
