Cory and Mark watch Election, the 1999 film starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick. They talk about whether any of ...

Why does central government move so slowly, even for a simple, free and crowd pleasing measure that Martin Lewis was calling ...

When a Conservative government curbed the Electoral Commission’s independence by taking on the power to set a “Strategy and Policy Statement” to direct its activities, Labour joined the opponents of ...

Councillors Tom Sanderson and Ann Blackwell (The Stukeleys, Huntingdonshire Council) have joined the Liberal Democrats.

It has already been a week in which the Liberal Democrats picked up five councillors, in Flintshire, Swansea and ...

A reminder of the importance of ensuring that political leaflets have imprints on them: Reform had to go to court to secure legal relief.

Here is a list of the councillors which Reform has shed from the May 2025 local elections and from those elections in by-elections since. The latest update is the pair of councillors in West ...

* indicates a figure with slightly different fieldwork dates from the rest of the row. Wording used – BMG: satisfied/dissatisfied, Deltapoll: well/badly, Find Out Now: well/badly, Focaldata: ...

The first episode of Political Fictions is out, in which Cory and I take a look at the Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron ...

Here’s my coverage of all the local council by-election results in Britain, updated each week as the results come in. I include all principal authority by-elections (i.e. borough, district, county and ...

Welcome to PollBase, my database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943 and the largest such dataset. It also includes an increasing range of party leader and government ...

The Week in Polls is my exclusive once a week round-up of what we’ve learnt from British political opinion polling and analysis, handily condensed for you into one ...