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By-election in the old blue wall: blueprint for the south?

Will Wallace

7 Jun 2021 - 10:00

Orange brigade are coming to town Bright orange triangle signs are popping up in house fronts. The empty shop has been taken over. Bar charts of dubious veracity are adorning leaflets. The ‘super local’ candidate is in place. Potholes are being mentioned. We know what this means… The Lib Dems smell a by-election upset in […]

Great British Renationalisation

Stephen Bramall

21 May 2021 - 12:16

It’s a curiosity, surely, that a Conservative government published a National Bus Strategy on 15 March which effectively brought the curtain down on bus deregulation outside London, a regime that has been in place since 1986. Then, on 20 May, it published a Rail White Paper (The Williams – Shapps Plan for Rail) which renationalises […]

A Bold Agenda, Delayed

James Olney

11 May 2021 - 19:06

For a Government with a majority as strong as Boris Johnson’s, it really has been a frustrating year lost. Big numbers in the Commons usually translates to bold legislative agendas – but the Covid pandemic has necessarily curtailed these efforts as the focus across Government has been on sustaining the country through the crisis and […]

The New Blue Wall

Francis Mallinson

10 May 2021 - 10:54

The Conservatives have delivered one of the most impressive mid-term election performances in living memory and Labour has experienced a devastating blow, leading to a crisis reshuffle. What does this mean for UK politics? A new British politics?This year’s elections suggest a re-alignment in British politics that will fuel a confident Conservative government in the coming […]

Local Elections 2021: What the early results mean

Katherine Morgan

7 May 2021 - 11:11

Keir Starmer and the Labour Party woke up this morning with news from Hartlepool that another red wall seat has fallen to the Conservatives in dramatic fashion. The next general election is three years away but 10 Downing Street will be celebrating if this stark trend continues throughout the weekend. Election results are expected across […]

The English local elections: whose wall is it anyway?

Francis Mallinson

5 May 2021 - 15:24

Tomorrow’s local elections are a welcome return to some sort of normality after they were put on pause by the pandemic. According to the polls this isn’t the only familiar theme. In London, the numbers suggest Sadiq Khan will win the mayoralty by a healthy margin. But with so much attention on former Labour heartlands […]

Forced Fashion or Fashion Forward?

Victoria McNish

31 Mar 2021 - 13:52

Last week I interviewed Nus Ghani MP in an event for NextGen Public Affairs to hear more about her lobbying efforts to end trade with states complicit in genocide and ensure no UK business profits from slave-labour. International organisations have been campaigning for years against the Chinese Government’s internment of Uyghur people in so-called ‘re-education’ […]

Balancing up: Analysing Rishi Sunak’s Budget

Katherine Morgan

3 Mar 2021 - 14:53

Some previous Chancellors have struggled to have their place in the sun. Gordon Brown famously developed the pre-budget report to stamp his authority in the House of Commons and help broaden the Treasury’s reach right across Whitehall. Of the many problems faced by Rishi Sunak over the past year, this has not been one. Today’s […]

Follow the green brick road…

Victoria McNish

17 Feb 2021 - 09:24

Jaguar Land Rover, Scottish Widows, Shell, Coca-Cola – what do they all have in common you may ask? These are just some of the companies that have announced new net zero or decarbonisation targets in the past month alone. Rarely a week goes by without one corporate pledge or another in the headlines, which […]

Has the pandemic changed the debate for Scottish independence?

Eilidh Wilson

13 Jan 2021 - 17:58

According to the latest YouGov poll, the Yes vote leads by 51% to 49% and over two thirds of Scots think Nicola Sturgeon is doing well as First Minister. The SNP are in a stronger position than ever before and hence it was no surprise that in September, Sturgeon announced that her Government will set […]

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By-election in the old blue wall: blueprint for the south?

Will Wallace

Great British Renationalisation

Stephen Bramall

A Bold Agenda, Delayed

James Olney

The New Blue Wall

Francis Mallinson

Local Elections 2021: What the early results mean

Katherine Morgan

The English local elections: whose wall is it anyway?

Francis Mallinson

Forced Fashion or Fashion Forward?

Victoria McNish

Balancing up: Analysing Rishi Sunak’s Budget

Katherine Morgan

Follow the green brick road…

Victoria McNish

Has the pandemic changed the debate for Scottish independence?

Eilidh Wilson

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