At some point between 3pm and 5pm on Thursday afternoon, the 55th parliament of the United Kingdom will adjourn for the last time. Both chambers will be prorogued until Monday,…

Lord Ashdown made a speech a few days ago at the Liberal Democrats’ Scottish conference in which he more or less admitted that the only way the party are going…

Now that the schedule for the leaders’ debates seems to have been settled*, the shape of the election campaign has become a bit more clear. We still have three live TV…

It wasn’t that many elections ago that party political broadcasts were quite an event, with the main TV channels broadcasting them virtually simultaneously and audiences tuning in dutifully if unenthusiastically…

If party leaders are looking for a precedent of how long it should take to form a government, they’d do well to cast a bit further back than five years…

I wrote a couple of weeks ago of how the weekend following the election is going to be dominated by commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of VE Day. One event in particular…

There are currently 12 political parties represented in the House of Commons. Come the election, this number could fall to 10. There’s a chance that both the Alliance party of…

We know exactly when the current parliament will end: 30 March. But we have no idea yet when the new parliament will begin. The date for the assembly of what…

It feels of late like an awful lot of MPs have been announcing their retirement. But in fact the current number standing down is roughly the same as it has…

The formal start of the election campaign is now just over a month away. Four weeks on Monday will see the dissolution of parliament: the official start of the campaign,…