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Three principal authority council by-elections this week, including Reform UK's first successful defence of a seat.
See the latest national voting intention polls for the next UK general election, along with MRP projections party leadership ratings.
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The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw Paula Surridge return to the show, talking about the impact of political values and of perceived competence on recent general elections. We got into ...
Newly elected Reform UK councillor Donna Edmunds has already been suspended by her party for talking of defecting.
Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding? by Chris Butler and Mark Pack, The Political Quarterly.
New polling from pollsters More in Common shows strong support from the public for the recent farmer protests.
Duncan Brack and I pick over Jeremy Thorpe's career - securing Britain's place in Europe, leading the Liberals to prominence and then scandal.
Liberal Democrat party leader Ed Davey tells the BBC that defence spending should increase to 2.5% of GDP.
Here is a curio. Michael Ramage was elected in May as a councillor in County Durham as one of the Reform UK candidates. In other words, he is not a member of the official Reform group on the council ...