Nick Faith crunches the numbers to explore the UKIP effect in marginal seats
Everyone in Westminster is talking about UKIP. The purple surge that we saw in last week’s county council elections has got political anoraks talking. The Prime Minister needs to secure his core supporters with more of a focus on immigration, crime and the EU, say...
Why I’m moving on – to help meet the Conservatives’ northern challenge
I’m really proud of the work that we’ve done over the past few years at Policy Exchange. We’ve really helped to set the political and the policy agenda across the board over the past few years – showing that think tanks can, and do, make a positive difference to...
Does the Prime Minister have enough power to govern effectively?
The rise in the general tax threshold – the part of a balanced package which the Liberal Democrats could claim as a triumph – became known beforehand. That was the good news. This meant that the Chancellor was landed on budget day with the revelation that...
Miliband faces a similar dilemma to that faced by Osborne in 2009
“Now let’s see if I’ve just cost us the election.” This line delivered by George Osborne to his advisers after his party conference speech in 2009 helps explain the Chancellor’s long term political calculations. In the midst of the financial crisis and a deteriorating...
