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The Lib Dems Get a Major Grassroots Boost

The Lib Dems have been making some impressive grass roots gains of late. Their surge in membership and council election victories since the 2015 election and, more dramatically, since the Brexit vote ...

Election 2017: how the main parties shape up ahead of snap vote

Theresa May’s announcement, calling for a general election on June 8, 2017, caught virtually everyone by surprise. May has repeatedly rejected calls for an early election since becoming ...

Snap election- 8th of June

This morning, Theresa May announced plans to call a snap election on the 8th of June. The move provoked shock in Westminster, as her government had repeatedly rejected calls for an early referendum ...

Pariah States and International Agreements - The Paris Agreement

The UN isn't just the preserve of the world's most respected governments. It is easy to forget that the world's most troublesome states are also actively involved in the UN, and easy to assume they ...

What Britain's post-Brexit immigration policy could look like

Huge questions hang over what Britain’s exit from the European Union will mean for the country’s immigration policy. Free movement of citizens between the UK and EU countries is coming to ...

Westminster attack: the questions security professionals will be asking

Londoners were well aware that the next terror attack in the UK was a matter of when, not if, as the acting deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said soon after the incident at Westminster ...

Never mind Article 50, here’s why Article 127 could be crucial to keeping Britain in the single market

Britain’s membership of the European single market has become the most contentious issue in the post-Brexit debate. And the legal issues involved are proving rather ...

Opposition Wins: The Essentials

In the past seventy years or so, there have been five really big changes in Government. Five mornings where everyone woke up to the election results and realised something genuinely significant had ...

The Hunt for Russia's Next Enemy

Alexander III, the conservative Russian emperor who ruled from 1881 to 1894, once famously remarked to his ministers that Russia has only two allies: its army and its navy. "The others," he said, ...

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