“It’s an open secret at CCHQ that your membership numbers are fake,”Farage wrote, referring to the Conservative Party’s main office. Farage rose to prominence as one of the leaders of the successful campaign for the UK to leave the European Union. In 2018, he founded the Brexit Party...
Party membership seems to lose relevance for political careers in many established democracies. Increasing numbers of parties are recruiting non-members as candidates. Yet, what are the implications of a lack of long-term party membershi... Karina Kosiara-Pedersen - 《Bordón Revista De Pedagogía...
Lords reform is also pledged by the Green Party, which proposes replacement with an elected second chamber, and the Liberal Democrats (who propose to reform the chamber to have a ‘proper democratic mandate’ but offer no more detail). Reform UK proposes to replace the House of Lords with a...
only by pretending that burning wood (young coal) at Drax saves CO2 (it does not) and also by exporting energy intensive jobs and then ignoring the CO2 them produce overseas to supply the UK with Steel, Fertiliser, Cement, Cars… thus...
The Icelandic bank, as a member of the European Economic Area (covered by the Single Market programme), was free to branch into the UK with the FSA having only limited powers to constrain its activities. Primary responsibility for prudential supervision lay with the home authority, and the pote...
Palgrave Macmillan UKBritish PoliticsLow, M. (2014b) "Parliamentary candidate selection in the Conservative Party: the meaning of reform for party members and membership parties", British Politics, Vol. 9, n° 4, 401-429.Mark LOW, "Parliamentary candidate selection in the Conservative Party: ...
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In general, the articles frame UK and US military aid as a means of ratcheting up the local threat against Russia, further destabilizing the regional security environment, and further cementing Ukraine’s de facto position as a quasi-member of NATO and the broader Western security architecture. ...
While the two articles are wildly different, in scope and political orientation, they touch on something rarely discussed in the UK. In a first-past-the-post electoral system, all politics is, to a degree that is almost always decisive, a ‘politics of place.’ The only party that has br...
On claims about China's "overproduction" of clean energy products, Zhu Xian, executive vice-president of the IFF and former vice-president of the World Bank, suggested that "someone third-party, maybe academic people, do a really good study of that". ...