Conservative Party Conference: Policy - Membership snubs ballot on manifestoAndrew Grice
The reconstruction of past trends in party membership can be fraught, especially when parties themselves kept no aggregate records. This was the case with the British Conservative party prior to 1946. The aggregate figures never existed, and the data that would be required to construct no longer ...
As the Conservative party head for a ‘massacre’ in the 2024 General Election, did Rishi Sunak rise too far, too fast? Rishi Sunak was long talked up as a prime minister in the making – so what happened, asks Ben Judah in an article that first appeared in the July/August 2020 issue...
The changing nature of activist engagement within the Conservative Party: A review of Susan Scarrow's task-orientated approach to party membership Scarrow highlighted two questions concerning party members: The level of engagement required and the extent to which this occurred within formal party stru...
The South Carolina Democrat will replace Rep.Mike Quigley(D-Ill.), according to amembership announcementreleased Wednesday afternoon. It will be Clyburn's first time back on the panel since 1999, when he stepped aside to resolve party infighting with the agreement from his leadership he'd be ...
The Conservative party will pledge to scrap thousands of university courses to help fund 100,000 apprenticeships per year if they win the general election in July. The party said it would replace the “worst-performing” degrees – those that offer poor job prospects or have high drop-out rate...
There is no open-and-shut case for refusing Farage party membership. But a future leader may regret it. November 22, 2023|Henry Hill|ToryDiary He said at conference that: “I’d be very surprised if I were not Conservative leader by ‘26. Very surprised.” Even if he was joking (and...
the party asked. Vucic's coalition partners were also infuriated. "Ana Brnabic is not my prime minister," nationalist official Dragan Markovic-Palma told the private Beta news agency. Earlier he said he would not approve anyone for the post who does not have at least two children. Vucic...
Devolution in the 2024 party manifestos Posted onJune 25, 2024byThe Constitution Unit The parties contesting the general election have now published their manifestos, allowing exploration and comparison of their constitutional proposals. In this fourth post in aseries on the manifestos,Patrick Thomasexam...
There are clearly questions about what’s happening in relation to voting, membership, and representation — and what the Party should or might want to do. Baroness Helic and Chloe Dalton: The victims of sexual violence in war have no #MeToo hashtag to highlight their story ...