Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘I know why social care isn’t being fixed’, Tortoise, 11 March 2021
- ‘The Conservatives’, UK in a Changing Europe, Beyond Brexit Report, 19 January 2021.
- ‘Is the Brexit war finally over?’, 27 December 2020
- ‘How bad is it for Boris?’, Unherd, 18 December 2020
- ‘Are lockdown-scepticism and Euroscepticism linked?’, UK in a Changing Europe, 10 November 2020 (with Alan Wager)
- ‘Cummings, Covid and the British Establishment’, CUP’s fifteeneightyfour Blog, 3 June 2020
- ‘What can the Conservatives’ 2019 election win tell us about their current leadership?’, OUP Blog, 9 November 2020 (with Sam Power and Paul Webb)
- ‘Northern Research Group: faction or tendency?’, UK in a Changing Europe, 28 October 2020
- ‘Tory Party conference and the missing B-word’, UK in a Changing Europe, 9 October 2020 (with Alan Wager)
- ‘How patriotic Labour could crush Boris’, Unherd, 21 September 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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