Monday Politics Articles

Anybody who is reading this is probably taking a short break from phoning, leafletting, doorknocking and poster-erecting. My message to you is ‘Keep at it – it is working’. Last week I experienced the election campaign equivalent of Peter Mandelson’s old mantra that...

Putting a neighbourhood policing team into every community was one of the most important public service reforms of the last Labour government. It is under serious threat from record levels of cuts in policing reported this weekend. However, it is also under threat...

Any parent of teenagers and many others will have felt their heart clench as they looked at the pictures of Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana waiting at the Istanbul bus station before heading to the Syrian borders and into the clutches of Islamic State....

Having been one of the original ‘Worcester women’ in my Midlands marginal seat, and previously a loyal shopper at Sainsbury’s and Tescos, I realised on Saturday that I am once again on political trend as I tried to find a parking place in my crowded local Lidl. This...