Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘The virus is changing politics, but there are opportunities as well as risks’, Times, 13 May 2020.
- ‘Does Boris Johnson have the Conservative Party’s permission to extend transition?’, with Hovid Minasyan, 30 April, UK in a Changing Europe.
- ‘A Brexit extension would face serious opposition even during coronavirus’, Financial Times, 11 April 2020
- ‘Covid-19 and the transition period’, UK in a Changing Europe, 19 March 2020.
- ‘Level up: Boosting the regions might mean levelling down London’ (with Phil Cowley), CityAM, 12 March 2020.
- ‘Poll reveals tensions in new Tory coalition’, Unherd, 11 March 2020.
- ‘Wash your hands, Big Brother is watching you’, Times, 9 March 2020.
- ‘Research with party members offers an important clue about how to heal Brexit divisions’, The Conversation, 5 February 2020.
- ‘What does Brexit mean for the UK’s party system?’, New Statesman, 5 February 2020.
- ‘We asked Labour members why their party lost. Here’s what they said’, LabourList, 3 February 2020.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
‘The UK general election, 2015: Surprise! Or maybe not….’, Report for German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), July 2015
One does not need to be a political scientist, let alone a rocket scientist, to know why, broadly speaking, the opposition Labour Party lost the election and why its rival, the Conservative Party, won a second term in office –this … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 General election, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Labour Party
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‘Who will win the Labour leadership election? It’s a little early to tell’ (with Paul Webb) New Statesman, 22 June 2015
It’s doubtful that voters are paying that much attention to Labour’s leadership contest, but that hasn’t prevented pollsters from beginning to ask them who they think the party should pick. First out of the traps was Ipsos MORI. Its poll … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Burnham, contest, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader, Labour leadership, Labour Party, Liz Kendall, party members, Yvette Cooper
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‘Only 15 per cent of Conservative party members would vote to leave the EU’ (with Paul Webb) Telegraph, 15 June 2015
Europe is already impinging, if only indirectly on Labour’s leadership contest. Andy Burnham in particular has suggested the party needs to be careful it doesn’t ‘do a Scotland’ by associating itself so closely with an all-party campaign that it ruins … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Party, David Cameron, EU, EU referendum, EU renegotiation, Europe, Euroscepticism, Labour Party, party members
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