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Reform UK won 4.1 million votes in the 2024 election—more than the Liberal Democrats—but the electoral system gave them just 5 seats…
The Scottish National Party dominated Scottish politics for a decade after the 2014 independence referendum, but scandals, leadership…
The 2010-2015 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition gave the Lib Dems their first taste of power in 70 years—and nearly destroyed them…
The Labour Party has been defined by factional warfare for decades, from the Militant Tendency in the 1980s to the Corbyn-Starmer civil…
Conservative leadership contests have shaped British politics for decades, from Margaret Thatcher's rise to Rishi Sunak's coronation…
Labour won 411 of 650 seats at the July 2024 general election on just 33.7% of the vote — the clearest recent illustration of what First…
The government's sweeping planning reforms promise to unlock hundreds of thousands of new homes, but critics warn that without addressing…
As Scotland edges closer to a second independence referendum and Welsh devolution demands grow louder, the United Kingdom's constitutional…
Labour's landslide victory reshaped Westminster's political scene, but a year on from polling day, many of the structural problems that…
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