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After winning an historic landslide at the general election, the Labour Party is in a buoyant mood. However, while Labour was successful in terms of the number of seats won in Wales, digging deeper into the results suggests that the story might not be as rosy for the party.

Following Labour's overwhelming victory in the UK, few anticipated the extent of their success in Scotland. Mark McGeoghegan explores the factors that contributed to redrawing the Scottish electoral map.

United in their desire to remove Tories from office (apparently using whichever political vehicle necessary), are the people of the UK singing from the same hymn sheet once again?

On the 2nd of May 2024, alongside other regional elections across England and Wales, voters went to the polls to elect the Greater London Authority (GLA) for the seventh time since its creation in 1999 by Tony Blair’s government. 

Is the perception of Scottish polls being "all over the place" accurate?

In this piece, Mark McGeoghegan analyses the diverse data and types of polls available to cut through the noise and identify the underlying trends in Scottish polling without overstating the certainty of the predictions we can make.

As Mother of the House, Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP gained unprecedented authority and legitimacy, speaking not just as an individual on behalf of women MPs and making feminist claims for women, but speaking as the representative of women MPs – in their name – for feminist ends.

With her retirement, what of the institution Harman made real?

Just as in Wales and Scotland, Northern Ireland has its own internal election campaigns in progress, with its political battle lines primarily drawn along specific constitutional lines, and parties within and between them, writes Clare Rice.

For the first time in eight years, Scotland will have an election that is not first and foremost about Scottish secession from the United Kingdom. Mark McGeoghegan writes on the dynamics of the constitutional debate in Scotland and the disarming of the SNP’s most powerful electoral narratives.

This month, Dr Hayley Bennett, Prof Ruth Patrick, and Dr Mark Simpson launched their new project, ‘Social security in a devolved UK: realities, risks & opportunities for families’, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. In this blog they introduce the purpose and aims of the project over the next 2 years.