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At this year’s Labour party conference we’ll once again be holding a range of panel events with expert speakers, including politicians, businesses, civil society leaders, journalists and other experts that bring fresh ideas and perspectives. We’ll be discussing the future...
At this year’s Conservative party conference we’ll once again be holding a range of panel events with expert speakers, including politicians, businesses, civil society leaders, journalists and other experts that bring fresh ideas and perspectives. We’ll be discussing the future...
The recently passed Elections Bill means voters must now have to provide photo ID to vote, including in today’s local elections. The government says this policy is necessary for “stamping out the potential for voter fraud to take place and...
The government’s new Voter ID laws risk significantly undermining political participation, according to new polling commissioned by the cross party think tank Demos. The think tank argues that the new laws mean that both voters who are traditionally engaged and...
Through the long leadership election for the new Conservative party leader I’ve noticed a recurring theme: the accusation that voters want unrealistic or simplistic solutions to problems so big that they couldn’t possibly understand. They want to have their cake...
Today, we’re launching a new co-design tool called Combined Choice. This is part of Demos’ work to build a different kind of democracy: an everyday democracy in which people are involved in the democratic process regularly and deeply, not once...
Announcing his new role as Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency to The Sun’s readers last month, Jacob Rees-Mogg declared that, “to do my job I need your wisdom.” Specifically, he wanted to know from the public where to...
This morning Keir Starmer chose to frame his offer to the voters under the banners of Security, Prosperity and Respect. He called this a contract with the voters, a framing for which I have little time, and which led to...
British politics has always had a complicated relationship with experts. Different governments have defined and redefined expert roles in their administrations, with arguments for and against technocratic policymaking filling the halls of Westminster at times of change, challenge and crisis....
