Read below my posts about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys. You can sign up for my weekly polling newsletter, ...

The Home Secretary has the power to alter rules over who is allowed into the country, and does this without even telling ...

The Lib Dems are the party most liked by their political rivals, according to research by the Policy Institute at King’s ...

Edinburgh West Member of Parliament Christine Jardine is not going to be standing at the next Westminster general election.

Following the Lib Dem gain on Wednesday we then also this week had a further five on a more traditional Thursday. There was ...

The Lives of Others. We’re headed to East Germany for this episode: Mark and Cory discuss The Lives of Others, a modern ...

Mark and Cory talk about a giant of American political drama for the first time with The West Wing's Let Bartlet Be Bartlet ...

The Greens lost two seats they were defending in this week's council by-elections, in Sheffield and in Leicestershire.

Oscar-winning American director Joseph Strick made his mark on British politics with a film for the BBC on the 1966 election, The Hecklers.

Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors on principal authorities elected ...

Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, broken down by where those gains/losses have come from. Each cell shows the net gains/losses, followed by in brackets the total number of gains ...

Below is the list of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidates (formally Prospective Parliamentary Candidates, aka PPCs) for the next Westminster general election whose selection has been ...