Hopi Sen Articles

Don't know about you, but I'm worried. It looks as though we are in danger of breaking Katwala's Law. Roadtested at party conferences this year, this is the Sunder Katwala's brilliant observation that – when it comes to immigration – 'make promises you can keep'....

Elections are always about the future. Tony Blair emphasised this point in his Philip Gould Lecture, perhaps because it was a reminder of Gould’s own relentlessly forward-looking politics. Yet an accounting is needed too. Because for the Labour party, Blair is now in...

How to measure Labour’s progress over the next 12 months Some historically minded psephologists apply the trends of the past, and produce models that predict Tory recovery and Labour decline: few oppositions win from the poll share Labour enjoys. For Labour’s...

Does voters’ distrust of politics provide an opportunity, asks Hopi Sen These dispatches from the electoral frontline from Deborah Mattinson and Zoe Tyndall are dominated by disbelief and mistrust in politics. The political classes do not understand these voters’...