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Labour’s planning reforms are starting to work. But they won’t be enough.
As the Labour government turns in upon itself, this week brings a rare sign that one of its flagship policy platforms may actually be having a...
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Starmer gets on with the job as attention shifts to Makerfield
There has been no shortage of political drama since the local elections on Thursday 7 May. Nearly 100 Labour MPs publicly declared that they have lost...
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The uncomfortable usefulness of Big Oil’s playbook
It is tempting, in corporate life, to treat geopolitics like the office fire alarm: important in theory, inconvenient in practice, and best left to...
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A new era for Wales
Over a century of Labour party dominance at the ballot box came to a spectacular end here in Wales on 7 May. As the results were announced, Labour...
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Get you two: Trump and Xi meet in Beijing
By William Brocklehurst, Managing Partner SEC Newgate China Trump and Xi met in Beijing on Wednesday for the first US presidential visit to China in...
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May 26 elections round-up: What now for Energy, Transport and Infrastructure?
There are probably a lot of people who woke up with sore heads on Saturday morning. You will have heard about the obvious ones: Tories in Hampshire...
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May 26 elections round-up: What now for housing?
Last week’s patchwork quilt of local election results has clear implications for housebuilding and development. The rise of Reform and the Greens...
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From uniform to Reform: Britain enters it's multi-party era
As an avid elections enthusiast who has been involved in democratic politics (in one form or another) for the past 21 years, never have I seen a round...
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