1992 general election Articles

The Election A-Z is the latest book from the former political and industrial reporter Nicholas Jones. It promises a look back at the changes and great stories from the 14 general elections Jones has reported from and is his fifth book on modern politics. As a politics...

‘Tories woo Worcester Woman’ was the headline that appeared on the billboard outside my local newsagent one Sunday morning in 1996. Having read the article which reported on Tory central office’s identification of the mythical voter that is Worcester Woman, I was...

On 8 May 2015, 34 per cent of those entitled to vote did not bother to turn up to the polling station. As Labour faces up to the dilemma of how a leftwing party can win the next election given that the electorate chose to give power to the right, these non-voters...

For those of us who lived through it, the election held on 9 April 1992 had a profound impact on our politics. Labour entered the campaign ahead in the polls. At the very least, a Lib-Lab coalition was on the cards. In 13 Tory years we had been through two major...