Tim Bale’s Blog- ‘Pro-EU Tories flirting with rebellion need to put their votes where their mouths are’, Times Red Box, 6 September 2017.
- ‘Blue on blue: the 10 greatest Tory feuds’, New Statesman, 14 August 2017.
- ‘A new centrist pro-EU party can be a catalyst even if it flops’, Financial Times, 12 August 2017.
- ‘Death and foxes: why certain issues have the power to turn a political campaign’, Prospect, 7 August 2017
- ‘Think you know who will be the next PM? Think again . . . and again’, Times, 11 July 2017
- ‘The Tories’ deal with the DUP papers over the cracks, but it can’t work miracles’, Telegraph, 26 June 2017.
- ‘EU referendum: one year on – political parties’, UK in a Changing Europe, 26 June 2017.
- ‘Was it the Labour doorstep or the Labour smartphone that swung it for Jeremy?’, UK Election Analysis, 2017, 19 June 2017
- ‘The Tory party is more useless than nasty’, Prospect, 20 June 2017.
- ‘DEBATE: Does Theresa May’s failure to win a majority lay the path for another election before the end of the year? YES’, CityAM, 12 June 2017
Tag Archives: Members
‘Explaining the pro-Corbyn surge in Labour’s membership’ (with Monica Poletti and Paul Webb), LSE British Politics and Policy Blog, 16 November 2016
As part of our ESRC-funded Party Members Project (PMP), we fielded a first survey with existing Labour members in May 2015 and a second one with post-election members in May 2016. We now know that at the most recent leadership … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeremy Corbyn, Labour members, Labour Party, Members, membership, Momentum, party members
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The dwindling Tory party: is anybody out there?, Telegraph, 21 September 2013
David Cameron’s enemies have been quick to pounce on figures which suggest that the Conservative Party’s membership has almost halved since he took over as Tory leader back in 2005. The drop simply proves, they argue, what they have been … Continue reading
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Five things you may think you know about the Conservative grassroots but actually probably don’t, Ballots and Bullets, 24 July 2013
The problem with doing any kind of social science is that the data you collect end up confirming what people already assume is the case. This is not bad in itself. There’s nothing inherently wrong in providing empirical evidence for … Continue reading
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Tagged candidates, church attendance, Conservative Party, gof, immigration, Members, Tories, Tory Party
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Another coalition after 2015? The Tory grassroots can’t bear the thought, Telegraph, 17 July 2003
An overwhelming majority of rank-and-file Conservatives wish David Cameron had never taken them into coalition with the Lib Dems back in May 2010. But that doesn’t mean that they’ll stop him doing exactly the same thing after the next election … Continue reading
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Tagged Coalition, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Lib Dems, Members, Survey, Tories
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