GE2015

Behind the boundary review – not gerrymandering, just dirty politics

• 16th September 2016
• Chris Game
• Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party (UK), Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended

Boundary Review and gerrymandering are two terms which have been thrown about all week, not least by MPs (mainly Labour) crying foul at the potential loss of their place on the green benches

Tory conference fires starting pistol to succeed Cameron, with grandstanding from George, Boris and Theresa

• 7th October 2015
• Paul Dale
• Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Featured, GE2015, George Osborne, News, Partner Posts, Recommended

The Conservative party conference has drawn to a close, and it’s been a lively few days for those politicians who think they are in the frame to replace David Cameron

Win or lose, Corbyn’s best gift to Labour could be voter registration

• 10th September 2015
• Chris Game
• Clement Attlee, Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party (UK), Opinion, Popular, Recommended, Tony Blair

As voting in the Labour leadership election closes, Chris Game from the University of Birmingham wonders if the likely winner might turn his attention electoral registration and increasing the chances

The Single Transferable Vote and the undercover electoral reformers

• 20th August 2015
• Chris Game
• Councils, election, Electoral Reform Society, Featured, First-past-the-post voting, GE2015, Opinion, Popular, Proportional Representation, Recommended

Getting a touch bored by the Labour leadership election? Well, here’s a topical tale of political entryism or infiltration that I promise won’t hereafter mention Jeremy Corbyn or any other

It’s yesterday once more with Corbyn set to lead Labour into the electoral abyss

• 11th August 2015
• Paul Dale
• Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour conference, Labour leadership election, Labour Party (UK), Liz Kendall, Opinion, Popular, Recommended, YouGov, Yvette Cooper

I have no reason to revise my prediction that Jeremy Corbyn will be the next Labour leader. In fact, his victory is becoming so assured that bookmakers will probably soon

Birmingham: heading for the stars, whilst trapped in a bunker

• 30th July 2015
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Councils, Devolution, Featured, GE2015, Greater Birmingham Combined Authority, Kerslake Review, Mike Whitby, Opinion, Sir Albert Bore, west midlands combined authority

As the summer holidays relegate politics to an after thought, Chamberlain Files editor Kevin Johnson reflects on the issues that will make September not just super but very serious indeed for

Corbyn’s appeal to young and old Labour ‘will push him past the winning post’

• 29th July 2015
• Paul Dale
• Andy Burnham, Birmingham Labour, Ed Miliband, Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, labour party, Labour Party (UK), Liz Kendall, Opinion, Tony Blair, Yvette Cooper

Jeremy Corbyn is going to be the new Labour leader because he represents something that is strikingly different in a politically superficial age, even though victory will condemn his party to many