UK politics Articles

Like every other member of the Labour party, and indeed the Better Together coalition, I breathed a huge sigh of relief this morning on finding out Scotland had voted to stay with us. The prospect of losing Scotland was not just frightening for those of us who believe...

I have owned three copies of Gerald Kaufman MP’s original version of How to be a Minister. I still have two – perhaps the third was flung from a ministerial window when it failed to prevent some disaster or other. The point is, of course, that no book can ever...

Many of us working in the elections found ourselves overtaken by the Your Britain timetable. The Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform urges people, before this Friday 13 June, to add their ideas to the democratic reforms needed to create Better Politics. LCER links...

Nigel Farage will lose when mainstream parties level with the public, believes Anthony Painter We face a complex set of national challenges. We have an enormous national debt. We are heading towards a position where we spend more on interest than education. We have an...