First-past-the-post isn’t designed for five or six party politics. Which is why bar charts and MRPs are going to be so important.

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 ...

A staple of election campaigns for several decades has been the (lookalike) handwritten letter, usually on one or two pieces of A5 paper and delivered in a handwritten envelope. The letters are ...

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

Read about the January 1910 general election, called as a result of the constitutional crisis following the House of Lords rejecting the People’s Budget.

Potholes on Stroud Green Road are a common, near-permanent, feature. But how many repairs have been carried out?

Three council by-elections this week, starting off with a Lib Dem gain from Labour in Zetland ward on Redcar and Cleveland Council.

I was on Sky News soon after news broke about the Labour government abandoning its plans to cancel council elections, ...

Adam Dance was elected as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Yeovil constituency at the 2024 general election.

Congratulations to Pat Hackett, a former Labour council leader who has just been elected unopposed in a by-election for Dawlish Town Council. The Mid-Devon Advertiser reports: Pat, who moved to ...

The combined agenda and directory for the forthcoming Lib Dem Spring Conference 2026 in York are now out. Taking a look through, I was glad to see that a change I introduced as President has stuck. We ...

Welcome to Manu Singh, previously a Green councillor on Runnymede Council and now a Liberal Democrat: We're delighted to welcome Councillor Manu Singh who has joined the Liberal Democrats from the ...