Is the Mayor of Manchester set to succeed Sir Keir Starmer?

Throughout Jeremy Corbyn's five-year stint as leader of the Labour Party, it was often said that had another MP won the race to succeed Ed Miliband, the party would have been 10 to 20 points ahead of the Conservatives.

The Liberal Democrats’ unexpected victory in Chesham and Amersham is another...

18 June 2021 | ANALYSIS In the early hours of this morning, Sir Ed Davey's Liberal Democrats smashed its first brick out of the Conservatives'...

A week far from Parliament’s finest

5 November 2021 | OPINION Yesterday was a turbulent day in politics. Some people were concerned that Owen Paterson was to remain an MP, despite...

Boris must tackle the cost of living if he wants to...

21 April 2022 | OPINION Boris Johnson's political career hangs by a thread. Britain's happy-go-lucky Prime Minister, who has been plagued by 'Partygate', now finds himself in...

Rees-Mogg can get it right, but he’s wrong about Partygate

8 April 2022 | OPINION Underestimating the public mood can cause politicians some grief. Jacob Rees-Mogg’s fresh Partygate comments could cause far worse than that...

What is the UN for? It is beyond a joke

1 APRIL 2023 | OPINION Happy April Fool's Day! How do we know? Because Russia is taking over as chair of the UN Security Council. After...

Could it be time to move away from the left-right spectrum?...

A lot of people think of politics as being left-right. In Britain, this is Labour vs the Tories. In the US, this is usually the Democrats vs the Republicans. In Germany, this is the Social Democrats vs the Christian Democratic Union.

Can senior Church figures have a place in political discourse?

20 April 2022 | OPINION The Archbishop of Canterbury has been at the centre of debate over the Easter holiday period after criticising the Government’s...

Five years on: was Project Fear actually Project Reality?

23 June 2021 | ANALYSIS On the 23rd of June 2016, voters in the United Kingdom took a decision that would transform British politics and...

Direct democracy is the answer to this country’s problems – Oliver...

6 August 2021 | OPINION ‘Of Mice and Men’ Psychologists have conducted some strange experiments in their time. The act of balancing mice on a raft...
Wolves of Westminster