Andy Harrop Articles

The right does not do days like Fabian New Year conference, a Tory acquaintance once remarked to me. A thousand Conservatives just would not give up a Saturday for seven hours of policy debate. Labour activists are made of sterner stuff, it seems, as they prepare to...

‘English Votes for English Laws’ has always been seen within Labour ranks as a cynical, partisan Tory ploy. In origin it was, of course: one part of a gerrymanderer’s charter that includes boundary changes, individual electoral registration and extending the overseas...

Never mind how poorly George Osborne’s austerity policies have worked out, the chancellor remains confident that voters will remember that the global financial crisis took place on Labour’s watch. With the economy finally on the mend, regaining economic credibility...

If psephology is the study of voters and elections, the left increasingly specialises in pseudo-psephology: the study of voters that do not exist and elections that never happened. The first and most popular example of this is the 1992 election: a closely-fought...