Is Farage winning the youth vote?
Beneath headline polls, the question is more complicated than it seems.
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Will Reform win in your local council?
The party could win up to 1,000 councillors between now and the general election.
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Robert Jenrick: shapeshifter or ideologue?
Critics think he is a populist willing to say anything, allies defend him as a principled reformer.
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The disillusioned swing voters of Sheppey
The New Statesman had exclusive access to a focus group in one of Britain’s most deprived constituencies.
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Would Kemi Badenoch be worth the risk for Conservatives?
She might be “box-office”, but the Tory leadership candidate might prove too volatile for a party in crisis.
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Boris Johnson’s performance art
Is the media campaign to promote his new memoir also a return to politics?
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Why Labour shouldn’t rejoice at Badenoch vs Jenrick
Both Tory leadership candidates create risks as well as opportunities for Keir Starmer.
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Graham Brady’s main-character energy
In his memoir Kingmaker, the former chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee argues his party could have avoided disaster –…
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From MP to pigs’ pee: how ejected Tories are faring on the jobs market
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
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What the Tories did to us
The essay collection The Conservative Effect explores how theatrical short-termism and specious rhetoric defined 14 years of mis-rule.
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The fragile state
Why the British seem increasingly incapable of governing themselves.
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The return of order
After a decade of Tory inertia, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has the opportunity to remake Britain.
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The Tory centre will not hold
The Conservative Party created Reform by embracing liberal extremism. What comes next may not be what Labour expects.
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The fall of the Conservatives
If the Tories are to recover, they must resist the temptation to blame the electorate.
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Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The party will need to repudiate the failed policies and personalities of the past.
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The Conservative catastrophe
The most successful political party in history has always reinvented itself after defeat. Can it do so again?
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Sunak’s shrinking campaign: from the door of No 10 to doorsteps in his constituency…
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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The Conservative wipeout
How the Tory party campaign came apart.
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Who’s afraid of Keir Starmer?
The Tories’ fear tactics are failing against the Labour leader in a way they didn’t against his predecessors.
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The officer class is swelling Labour’s ranks
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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