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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?
Written by comedian Harry Hill, it’s a hectic hour-and-a-half of high-energy songs and skits.
Angela Rayner’s expansive policy brief faces the threat of ‘short-termism’ perhaps more than any other. If Labour win power, will Rayner be able to fight against these short-term political incentives?
Once upon a time, questioning the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU was effectively taboo. But times have changed and the public might be more on board than before.
With less than a week to go until the Voice referendum, the polls are looking grim for the “yes” campaign.
A prime minister who has been an MP for nearly a decade now wants to challenge 30 years of ‘vested interests’.
The former chancellor and shadow chancellor have revealed how their parties collaborated on devising some of the most damaging policies of the past 20 years.
The prime minister has acknowledged that a narrative of national decline is setting in – but he has been unable to disentangle himself from it.
The pressure to ‘have a good conference’ is immense for a party hoping to win an election. But the anxiety isn’t really evidence-based.
The SNP are set to lose a seat in a vote triggered by a COVID scandal. But this is not one of their safer seats at the best of times.
Research has long suggested that women shift left on a generational basis, but we think something else is happening here.
The latest findings from the British Social Attitudes survey suggest younger voters appear to have little faith that public spending will be directed their way.
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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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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor of British Politics, University of Leeds
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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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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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British Politics Lecturer, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
