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Will tomorrow be a turning point in British politics?

Ed Cox By Ed Cox Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: May 21, 2014

This year’s European elections and Scottish referendum may signify a more profound change in British politics than the General Election in 2015, writes Ed Cox. Taken together, they present an opportunity for the people of the United Kingdom to send a clear message to the mainstream political parties. Tomorrow’s local and European elections are not […]

Tagged With: devolution, elections, Farage, local government, parliament, politics, referendum, UKIP

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Presidental hopeful Verhofstadt showing courage needed to reinvent the EU

Mustafa Cirakli By Mustafa Cirakli Filed Under: Europe, Featured Posted: May 9, 2014

Ahead of the EU elections, Liberal candidate for the European Commission Presidency, Guy Verhofstadt, came to Manchester to outline his credentials. Mustafa Cirakli reports that Verhofstadt’s message was clear: we need more Europe. National media across the EU have focused on the rise of Eurosceptics such as UKIP in the UK and France’s National Front. But […]

Tagged With: ALDE, elections, EU, EU presidency, European Commission, Guy Verhofstadt, Liberal Alliance at the European Parliament, the United States of Europe

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Wrong, simplistic, unimaginative; dismantling Demos’s take on ethnic voting

Maria Sobolewska By Maria Sobolewska Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: April 25, 2014

Upwardly mobile ethnic minority voters are more likely to turn Tory, claims new research by thinktank Demos. But Dr Maria Sobolewska questions the methodology of the study and the validity of the conclusions. Demos has published a report on whether the Conservatives could avoid Romney’s famous death by demographics, and attract enough ethnic minority votes […]

Tagged With: Conservative, demos, elections, ethnic minorities, ethnicity, general election, Labour, marginal seats, social mobility, voting

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UKIP on the verge of a breakthrough

Rob FordMatthew Goodwin By Rob Ford and Matthew Goodwin Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: April 2, 2014

After tonight’s second Nick Clegg v Nigel Farage debate, 38% of viewers more likely to vote for UKIP according to a Guardian ICM poll. And there is a real prospect that the party could break through to become one of Britain’s two or three largest parties explain Dr Rob Ford and Dr Matthew Goodwin. UKIP is […]

Tagged With: elections, europe, Eurosceptic, immigration, Nigel Farage, Revolt on the Right, UKIP

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‘Greece has a problem, but Greece is not the problem’

Ewan Munro By Ewan Munro Filed Under: Europe, Featured Posted: March 5, 2014

Former Greek Prime Minster George Papandreou delivered the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence’s Annual Lecture, accompanied by two formidable looking bodyguards. Ewan Munro heard him affirm his commitment to the European Project and decry the lack of visionary leadership at the national level.  While the Eurozone crisis may have slipped from the front pages […]

Tagged With: elections, Eurozone crisis, Greece, Papandreou, recession

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