This is from The Guardian yesterday: The chart shows the overall sentiment towards migration and migrants expressed in the House of Commons by year. It
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In straight fights right wing parties could never win in the UK
If people were given a straight political choice in the UK, right-wing parties would never win elections. A new opinion poll from YouGov provides the
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Is it time for England to go out on its own?
We put out this video this lunchtime: This is the transcript: Latest opinion polls are showing that in both Scotland and Wales, there’s a very
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Unless the Tories and Labour agree on electoral reform they’re over
This was good, and entirely appropriate, from John Harris in The Guardian yesterday: People’s identities are complicated – something intensified by the means of communication
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When will Labour admit we need PR?
This is the latest YouGov polling data chart for the period since the general election in the UK: For the sake of comparison, this is
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Ireland says no to neoliberalism
I commented on the prospects for the Irish presidential election yesterday. Today, we have a first hint of the outcome: You can say the post
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Labour’s shame and Tory delusion: how mediocrity took power
Why are Britain’s politicians so hopeless? From Tory fantasists to Labour deniers, Westminster has driven out the talented, the imaginative and the honest. The Conservative
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Are politicians all the same, as people would have it?
Are all our major political parties now the same? Labour, Conservatives, the Lib Dems, and even Reform are united by one ideology: neoliberalism. Fiscal rules,
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Will Labour save democracy, if it’s the last thing it ever does?
Many people will have seen reports of an opinion poll published by YouGov yesterday, based on interviews with 13,000 people spread over every constituency in
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