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The UK General Election in Scotland: The End of an Era, Age of Ultra-Competition or Interregnum?
The dynamics of Scottish politics are still shaped by competition between Labour and the SNP, anti-incumbency and the question of Scottish independence.
- Political Parties
- Elections & Campaigning
- Scotland
- Labour Party
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The New Politics of Public Inquiries
An 'inquiry on inquiries’ at a time when more public inquiries are running concurrently than in any other time in British history.
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Parliament
- Progressive Politics
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The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK
Has Britain's Eurosceptic and anti-immigration movement broadened its social appeal?
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
- Populism
- Identity Politics
- Labour Party
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The Making and Breaking of Jacinda Ardern's Labour Government, 2017–2023
What drove New Zealand's Labour Party from unprecedented success to humiliation? Examining the political lessons can be drawn from Jacinda Ardern's career.
- Political Parties
- Covid-19
- Identity Politics
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Ethnic Minority Representation After the 2024 General Election: Does Ethnicity No Longer Matter?
Voters clearly care about ethnicity, but not in the ways usually assumed.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Labour Party
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An Industrial Policy for Hairdressing?
A wasteland of nail-bars?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Labour Party
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Why the WASPI has no Sting: Gender, Generation and Pension Inequalities
Since 2015, Women Against State Pension Inequality has campaigned tirelessly for ‘justice’ for millions of 1950s-born women.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
- Labour Party
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The Rules of the Coronation: What's the difference between Convention, Practice and Custom?
The coronation is an important constitutional event, with largely uncodified rules.
- Constitution
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Co-op's Golden Opportunity? Exploring the Prospects of Labour's Sister Party under Keir Starmer's Labour Government
The relationship between Labour and the Co-operative Party.
- Labour Party
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Biographies of Discontent: The Challenges Facing Labour
Going beyond the statistics to the real lives of four people.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
- Labour Party
