More information has emerged about the TV debates that, officially at least, are set to take place during the election campaign. ITV will host the first debate on 2 April, just…

Lord Ashcroft’s latest batch of constituency polls looked at four seats Ukip is hoping to take from the Conservatives – and found Nigel Farage’s party trailing in every single one….

The 70th anniversary of VE Day falls on 8 May: the day after the general election. A series of ceremonies to mark this occasion are scheduled to take place in…

At the last election, the party that prided itself most on posing as insurgent and anti-establishment was not Ukip or the Greens, but the BNP. It had done well enough…

The total number of MPs standing down at the election has now reached 88. A few constituencies are still searching for replacements, even though we’re less than three months away…

Academics from the British Election Study yesterday published what they called a “nowcast” (as opposed to a forecast) of the general election result. It caused quite a stir on social…

I wrote yesterday of how Labour will need a 19.7% swing to defeat Nick Clegg at the election, while the SNP will need a 20.8% swing to unseat Douglas Alexander….

The number of MPs who may be facing a “Portillo moment” on election night just keeps getting longer. Already on the list was education secretary Nicky Morgan, who would be…

A small number of political journalists, such as Dan Hodges and John Rentoul, have started suggesting that the Tories won’t merely end up the largest party at the election, but will…

Some interesting data was published a couple of days ago on the subject of how migrant voters could influence the outcome of the election. A report by the University of…