News & Insight

17 April 2015

The smaller parties stole the show in the opposition debate last night on the BBC. One of the biggest talking points occurred at the end of the debate when the leaders of the three smaller progressive party leaders embracing in...

17 April 2015

With people now spending well over two hours online each day, digital communications are frontier territory in general elections. As new technology develops, new digital platforms emerge and our online behaviour changes, everyone is experimenting as they mix science with...

17 April 2015

Just as in May 2015, culture was at the heart of an incoming government in 1997. That year, real political change after eighteen years of Conservative rule was reflected in the spirit of ‘cool Britannia’, a prevailing sense that what...

16 April 2015

[Check against delivery] The general election is just over three weeks away. It’s the most important election in a generation. A choice not just between parties but between two competing visions of how our country can succeed. A Tory plan that says we...

16 April 2015

Labour’s five years in opposition culminated in an election manifesto which married fiscal discipline with a programme for social and economic renewal. The document only contained fully costed pledges, but it also promised big solutions on issues from inequality to...

15 April 2015

How to Run a Government, so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don’t go crazy Michael Barber (Penguin, March 2015) The skills needed to win elections are very different from those required to govern effectively. In his new book Sir Michael Barber...