The prime minister hardly sounded committed to the election he was calling, but Labour still has to win hearts and minds.
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The day is set for 4 July, leaving just six weeks for the campaign.
The strategy is clear – what’s less obvious is whether there’s any point to it.
Winston Churchill defected in his time, as did Oswald Mosley. In fact, a defection played a key part in the formation of the Conservative party.
The prime minister is being optimistic at best with his reading – but these results to suggest Labour’s win might not be as decisive as polls currently suggest.
In a dismal night for the government, one result towers above the others.
Even though Keir Starmer is more comfortable being associated with the leaders of the last Labour government than Jeremy Corbyn or Ed Miliband, this is not a return to the past.
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.
Are Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves focusing on the same criteria for economic competence as Britain’s voters?
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.
Labour’s Muslim vote is concentrated in safe seats – but with an electoral mountain to climb, no contest can be taken for granted.
Instead of voting on a ceasefire, the House of Commons descended into furious arguments between MPs and the speaker.
Disillusioned Conservative voters have had a string of opportunities to make their voices heard.
Just as the UK looks set to return to grown up politics, everyone else is installing radicals.
Keir Starmer’s flagship climate change pledge has already been cut back significantly since 2021.
Tooth decay is the most common reason why young children aged from five to ten are admitted to hospital.
After years of tumult in the ruling Conservative party, Labour looks set to take office. But it is no sure bet, and could be off the back of a large scale disaffection from the wider public.
Ramsay MacDonald was Labour’s first ever PM but he ended up being booted out of the party he helped found.
The victims of the Horizon scandal had no political constituency and served no existing partisan debate.
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Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in British Politics/Public Policy, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
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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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Chair Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
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