This is the second in a series of reviews of the state of public opinion for each of the parties to coincide with the conference season. By pooling together all … Read the rest
Month: September 2012
It has been an uncomfortable week for Nick Clegg. Opinion polls continue to show him to be (by some distance) the least popular of the party leaders, and his … Read the rest
The return, for a final season, of The Thick of It and news that Yes Minister is to be revived for the small screen might suggest that comedies about politics … Read the rest
This is the first in a series of reviews of the state of public opinion for each of the parties to coincide with the conference season. By pooling together all … Read the rest
In her column in the Daily Telegraph last week, Mary Riddell drew on my book to argue that David Cameron is at risk of destroying his party’s link to the … Read the rest
This is the eighteenth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence … Read the rest
The Thick of It, that supposed satire of Westminster life, has returned to BBC2 for one last season.
It is something I’ll be discussing in my forthcoming book for … Read the rest
For political parties, the arrival of a new leader is often a catalyst for change. But as the relatively unknown Natalie Bennett will quickly find, the wider environment offers the … Read the rest
News of the knighthoods awarded to some of those departing the British government in its latest reshuffle reminded me of an interview I carried out with a whip for this … Read the rest
On his personal blog, Nottingham PhD student Chris Burgess discusses the poster illustrated above.
It is a Conservative effort, mocking H.H. Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916. … Read the rest