Lib Dem 2017 election review published – and the party habit I disagree with
The Liberal Democrats have today published a public summary of the internal review carried out into the party’s 2017 general election performance. … Read the full post »
Read about the 2017 general election, called by Prime Minister Theresa May. Her decision to call an early general election backfired badly with the Conservative Party losing its overall majority.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a public summary of the internal review carried out into the party’s 2017 general election performance. … Read the full post »
A Labour campaign organiser has been convicted and fined for failing to include an imprint on a newspaper wraparound for the Ilford South constituency at the 2017 election. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #112 came out last week, looking at the Lib Dem performance in the 2018 local elections. … Read the full post »
A look at “Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence from candidate use of Twitter during the 2015 and 2017 UK Elections” by Jonathan Bright, Scott A Hale, Bharath Ganesh, Andrew Bulovsky, Helen Margetts and Phil Howard. … Read the full post »
Details of the national election expense returns for the bigger parties at the 2017 general election have been published by the Electoral Commission. … Read the full post »
The Conservatives are keen to introduce identity checks at polling stations before people vote. So much so, that pilots are being carried out for this May’s elections in some places. Which prompts the question, why? … Read the full post »
Out today is the latest data from the British Election Survey (BES), focusing on turnout. It was up at the 2017 general election, making it the fourth general election in a row at which turnout has risen. But it wasn’t young people who fuelled the turnout rise. … Read the full post »
Particularly in the aftermath of an election, you hear lots of Liberal Democrats saying that the party needs to more radical or more distinctive. … Read the full post »
The continuing fallout from the general election blunders in Newcastle-under-Lyme seem to have caused the fall of the Labour administration on the council. … Read the full post »
That’s the news from Peston on Sunday’s interview with Miriam Gonzalez Durantez. … Read the full post »