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On 20th June 2024, we asked our Trustwatch panel about what they think of the Conservative director of campaigning and his wife being looked into for bets on the date of the general election. On 25th June 2024, we had...
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Findings and commentary 1. Around half of the public (54%) feel that the general election campaigns represents people like them, especially those who plan to vote for the main parties, but concern remains from a significant proportion of the public...
On Sunday, the Observer published statistics which suggested over 85 per cent of the calls to the Government’s benefits fraud hotline between 2010 and 2015 had no case to answer. At around 890,000 false allegations, that’s nearly 500 per day,...
Over the past 60 years, national elections have become a topic of keen interest for political scientists all over the world. This isn’t surprising, of course: voting, after all, represents the central act of the democratic process. And central to...
A few weeks ago, I attended a rather hastily convened roundtable at the European Council for Foreign Relations, to mark the release of another round of Jim McGarry’s global think tank index. Whatever one feels about the value of such...
In light of substantial cuts to Esol funding over the last five years, David Cameron’s commitment yesterday to providing an additional £20 million fund for Esol is welcome. It shows an understanding of the vital role language must play in...
This week saw the launch of the Commission on Inequality in Education, with a speech given by its Chair Nick Clegg at Portcullis House. It has never been more important that these issues are explored in government and civil society. ...
In the public outpouring of (genuine) grief upon the loss of David Bowie yesterday, you could be excused for missing an interesting intervention by another David, the Prime Minister, heralding what appeared to be the return of the ‘social strategy’....
While the commentariat has been focused on the strife wracking the Labour Party, the government have been quietly completing the second phase of their vast UK-wide effort to decentralise governance in the UK. On the back of the major devolution...
It’s become a truism that digital revolution is changing politics: and it is, of course. But few research groups have tried to measure exactly how. Yesterday, we launched some brand new research into how European citizens and MEPs are using Twitter,...
On any measure it has been a big political year, from David Cameron’s surprise majority to Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable insurgency. But what were the big ideas? Pre-distribution. Ed Miliband was mocked for using the term in 2012 but it always...
