Stephen Bush Articles

This time last year, the Conservatives were wondering what the hell had gone wrong. They were the party of the unfettered market, which had spent most of its time trying – and failing – to restrict the free movement of labour. They were the party of fiscal discipline,...

What Hugh Gaitskell did not do is instructive Learning from the past is less glamorous than learning from other countries, because the latter can be leveraged into trips to the United States or Scandinavia, while the former entails nothing more exotic than a jaunt...

I used to think of it as the 'two o’clock awkward': that moment in conversation, usually late at night, often in the junior common room or someone’s room, when I realised that the person I was talking to had a completely different background and outlook to mine. Boris...

When is a hustings not a hustings? Well, when the only declared candidate for the office in question – the Labour nomination for mayor of London – hasn’t been invited, and the matter at hand is an entirely different election. That said, while Progress’ latest event in...