May 31, 2014
England’s 13 Tory-free zones
Last week’s local elections accelerated the Conservative party’s disappearance from most of metropolitan England. An end point of sorts has been reached in some parts of the country, where there…
Month: May 2014
May 30, 2014
Yes, the Tories will hold on to Newark – but it’ll still be a historic win
This time next week the citizens of Newark will be spending their first day represented by a brand new MP. Here’s the constituency result at the 2010 general election: And…
May 29, 2014
Forget Clegg and Cable; it’ll be Lib Dem MPs like these who’ll lose their seats
From one dicey dozen to another. Here’s a list of the 12 Liberal Democrat MPs who currently have the smallest majorities in parliament, and who are therefore the easiest (on…
May 28, 2014
Where the fight for London was won and lost
Around 9pm yesterday evening, over 100 hours since polls closed, the result for the Bromley South ward in Tower Hamlets was announced. It brought to an end the longest count…
May 27, 2014
Four UK parties were wiped out at the European elections
…but one of them wasn’t the Liberal Democrats. Northern Ireland declared its final set of results earlier today, meaning we now have a complete line-up of the UK’s newly-elected 73…
May 26, 2014
One prediction Nigel Farage got wrong
The day before the European elections took place, Ukip leader Nigel Farage forecast a “record turnout” at the polls. This would have meant more than 38.5% of UK electors casting…
May 26, 2014
The Liberal Democrats’ dicey dozen: how many survived?
Just the one. I predicted that the party’s MEPs would be reduced from 12 to three. In fact they have been reduced to a single person: Catherine Beader. Her stint…
May 25, 2014
That Ukip ‘surge’ in full
All the results from Thursday’s local elections are finally in*. Here’s precisely how Ukip has done: Expressed as a percentage, Ukip now holds 2.15% of the seats on councils where…
May 25, 2014
The strange death (again) of Liberal England
One of the first books I encountered when I started my A-level history course at school was by George Dangerfield. Its title was so punchy and intriguing that it has…
May 24, 2014
Labour’s top 20 targets: how did it do?
Not very well. Here’s the chart I compiled of the 20 councils it should have been easiest for Labour to win on Thursday: And here’s how the party actually did:
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