A third ofSwindon's seats are up, and the party will be looking to win more than the 12 they did in 2022. In 1997, Labour secured two parliamentary seats there and a repeat is required for a majority at the next general election. Medwayis a more ambitious target but a whole council...
Labour won fewer seats in 2015 than in 2010, even though its share of the vote increased. The decline in representation was occasioned by three features of the electoral geography of the 2015 contest—a collapse in Labour support in Scotland, a particularly strong Conservative advance in marginal...
No Man's Land: As the Local and Mayoral Elections Approach, a Curious Phenomenon Has Become Apparent: The Tories Are Losing, While Labour Isn't Winning. Ho... Both David Cameron and Ed Miliband are haunted by elections that they only kind of won. The... R Behr 被引量: 0发表: 0年...
SPD faced another internal debacle after the 2019 Danish elections, which S won with a restrictive immigration platform, ignited by ex-leader Sigmar Gabriel. In an op-ed, Gabriel wrote that SPD elites did not want to engage with ‘the uncomfortable topic’ of immigration, while it was a rath...
How Scottish Labour could pay the price of Blair's hard line on Iraq and there's nothing they can do; Elections are looming for the parliament and the polls spell a surprise upset. Political Editor Douglas Fraser finds out if feelings on Iraq are going to cost Scottish Labour seats...
I read Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works because it claimed to answer two of the greatest questions in development economics: How did countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieve sustained, high growth and turn into development success stories? And why have so few other countries...
We include this criterion because we do not believe that corporations should fund political parties. There is considerable evidence that the huge wealth of corporations can distort the political process. Elections in the USA in particular can appear to be ‘bought’ by the candidate with the bigges...
The IRA is structured so that projects can receive varying degrees of tax credits based on multiple factors. These include the level of domestic content and the prevailing wage for labour, as well as the potential location of the project in an ‘energy community’ as defined by the Act. ...
Jackson, 82, entered the stage in a wheelchair, holding up both thumbs up in triumph to a cheering crowd. The ordained Baptist pastor did not speak to the convention. Multiple speakers gave shoutouts to Jackson, who was also the subject of a video broadcast at the event’s hall. The vid...
I mean, I was thinking of the level of kind of pedantic or sort of petty interference you would have to do to block such a relatively minor appointment in the scheme of world affairs. To me, that would make it less likely. And yet when you look at what he did to John Bolton, who...