The Liberal Democrats are the wildcard of the forthcoming general election. Having improved their performance at the...
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Matthew Burchell Articles
Scare Tory
Ten years after Michael Howard’s shock victory in the 2005 general election, Britain is a very different place from...
Come call on Slough
Conventional wisdom holds that Labour will win the 2005 general election with ease, as it did in 2001 and 1997. There...
Party of the family?
Childcare has rarely been a major political battleground. But that is changing. On 11 November, both Tony Blair and...
Inactive citizenship
With the attention of the world understandably focused on the presidential race during the recent American elections,...
Howard y’think I’m doing?
If the rumours are to be believed, Michael Howard’s office is not a happy place. Tempers are frayed. Staff feel...
Blue in the face
After the Conservatives’ second successive general election hammering in 2001, the need for the party to become more...
Ones to watch
The next election is likely to bring important changes to the Liberal Democrats in parliament, with four prominent...
Four more years…
Bill Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Bob Reich, has argued that ‘musings about a second Bush term typically assume...
Devolving without devaluing
When the main parties write their manifestos for next year's general election, there is little doubt that all three...
Paying for localism
Council Tax has always been a regressive tax. For many low-income households, it is the largest single tax they pay -...
The return of the internal market?
In the future, the NHS will look very different from how it looks today. On this much, Labour and the Conservatives...