We’ve had the battlebuses, the party political broadcasts, even the photo opportunities with cuddly animals. But we’ve now had well over a week of electioneering and I’ve yet to hear…

The Press Association has published its list of estimated declaration times for the general election. It’s only an approximate timetable, and in some cases the timings from 2010 have been…

The election campaign is a week old. How are the main party leaders getting on in notching up those all-important visits to key constituencies and marginal seats? First, the prime…

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…