centre ground Articles

The prime minister closed her party’s conference with a bold pitch for the ‘centre-ground’ of British politics. It lacked real vision, it certainly lacked consistency, and it lacked policy commitments. But it did not lack chutzpah. Simply saying you are on the...

As the polling stations closed on 7 May I remember sitting down after a hard day campaigning to watch the exit polls results come in. My initial reaction was one of disbelief as the BBC announced a possible Conservative majority, and I refused to believe they were...

            This is the graphic that matters in British politics.                       The figures change at the margin between polls (this is from before the election) but the...

In November 1988, the Democrat presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis, led his party to its third consecutive defeat. In its aftermath, two academics, Elaine Kamarck and William Galston, published a short monograph, The Politics of Evasion, in which they accused...