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Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party's mayor of London, romped to victory on Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the...
Millions of voters in England and Wales cast ballots on Thursday in an array of local elections amounting to the last big test before a UK general election that...
Chris Skidmore had already announced that he was standing down as a Conservative MP at the next general election, because his Kingswood constituency is being abolished. Half of his seat...
The slow but inexorable pace of social change sometimes leaves political parties stranded. One hundred years ago on Wednesday, Labour won more seats than the Liberals in the general election,...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak marked a year in office on Wednesday with little to celebrate as wars on the international stage make a grim backdrop to his domestic challenges....
The party conference season is over, having confirmed the new power in the land. Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, is now running the country. Keir Starmer, who had a successful...
If Keir Starmer was at all worried about his party conference getting off to a good start, well, his fears may be said to be safely allayed now. Not only...
One of the most testing thought experiments is to assume that the opinion polls now are not what the election result will be, and to ask: “Higher or lower?”...
In the inward-looking debate that followed Labour’s defeat in 2010, one argument was especially dangerous: that it would have been better for Labour if John Smith had lived and won...
The most depressing thing about the Tories running about 20 points behind Labour in the polls is that they’ve clearly decided they can’t win the next election on the usual...