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March 24, 2015

How parliament is preparing to pack up

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,…

March 23, 2015

Paddy Ashdown sounds like he’s still fighting the last election

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…

March 22, 2015

How the TV debates will shape the campaign timetable

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…

March 17, 2015

There now follows an election broadcast on behalf of… how many parties?

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…

March 11, 2015

Whoever gets to form the next government should take their time

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…

March 09, 2015

One person has already ducked out of the post-election pageantry

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…

March 06, 2015

The fate of tiny parties in the Commons: history’s brutal lesson

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…

March 04, 2015

One of the biggest mysteries about the next parliament is when it will actually begin

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…

March 02, 2015

How the number of retiring MPs compares with past elections

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…

February 27, 2015

We’re about to see the longest official campaign in modern history

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,…

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