Mike Parr is a regular commentator on this blog. Over recent weeks, he has been writing about setting up a support network for independent candidates
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The most useful thing I think I can do this morning is suggest questions to ask politicians in this election. A thread. The following list
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This video was recorded yesterday morning before I knew there would be an election. But it remains totally relevant despite that. In it, I argue
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Fairly soon after the election was called last night I put a couple of polls on Twitter: All the usual caveats apply. Of course my
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I won’t be the first, or last, to say this, but I wake this morning with a sense of dull dread. The idea that we
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As many will know, there are extremely restrictive laws in the UK on what can be said by NGOs and others in the run up
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Sunak has cut and is running. The fact that he is heading for certain defeat does not seem to be a factor in his decision-making
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As I have noted in another post this morning. Labour apparently thinks that the biggest crises that it will face that will have the power
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As the FT noted yesterday, Labour’s chief executive, Sue Gray, has drawn up a short list of crises that might hit a new Labour government.
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