UK Politics
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๐งตTwo v.different focus groups today in Tory heartlands & both showed the depths of trouble the Tories are in. Spelthorne where fair to say the outgoing MP hadnโt left a positive im...
The Brexit party have been ahead of the Conservatives in a poll before - in June 2019. I went back and looked at where those intending to vote Brexit party then ended up in 2019 an...
NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university. American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons ๐ Letโ...
From 1990-2019, UK per capita GDP (PPP) grew about as fast as the U.S., and faster than Germany, Canada, or France. From 2009 to 2019 it grew faster than Canada or France, though s...
The way to understand U.K. politics since 2015 is as a fightback by the left and right wings of the establishment. Corbynโs election and then Brexit were huge shocks to it and ther...
New blog: Sunak has run a Cameroon-Establishment campaign, โfiscal conservatismโ is a *crazy* focus. 2023: best chance since ?1850s to build a replacement for the Tories when they...
The Conservative Party was once famed for its iron discipline. Yet six of its last eight leaders have been fatally undermined by their own followers. Why has Conservatism become...
