2024 General Election saw voters switch between parties at highest rate since 1931
Increased voter volatility has meant that this was the first UK election where four parties received over 10% of the vote,
Yearly Archives: 2024
Margaret Hodge takes on anti-corruption champion role to tackle flow of dirty money
Lammy says the government will make the UK ‘a hostile environment for the corrupt’
Nigel Farage makes sixth trip to US since being elected MP so that he can headline MAGA fundraiser
Is he ever in his constituency?
Labour should mobilise progressive majority to win future elections, new Compass report says
The think tank has warned Labour should focus on building on the progressive majority, rather than courting centre-right voters
Suella Braverman’s husband defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
“I’m not defecting to Reform … This is the 21st century and not the 18th — my husband does not speak for me nor does he control my political affiliations.
The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry
Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.
Trade unions call on government to act on manifesto promise to strengthen statutory sick pay
Union leaders stress that
statutory sick pay in the UK is ‘set at one of the lowest levels in the industrialised world’
Jamal Khashoggi’s widow urges Keir Starmer to confront Saudi Crown Prince about journalist’s murder
‘Forgetting Jamal’s case does not align with the values of justice and democratic and human rights in your country.’
Tory donor Lord Ranger and tech baron Lawrence Jones stripped of UK honours
According to reports in the London Gazette, five others were stripped of their honours
How the right lost interest in climate change
As right-wing populist movements gain ground, we’re witnessing a deliberate undermining of climate science and policy at a time when extreme weather events, such as floods that claimed hundreds of lives in Spain and hurricanes that ravaged communities in Florida, confirm the need for urgent and bold action.