by Chris Rogers | 10 Nov 2016 | European Union, Politics
Go on, admit it, you’d never heard of Stephen Phillips until, on 4th November, he resigned as the Member of Parliament for Sleaford and North Hykeham, triggering an epidemic of speculation that Theresa May would call a “snap general election”. The argument goes that...
by Chris Rogers | 20 Oct 2016 | Politics
It must be tough being a political pollster. Get it right and you’re simply doing your job. Get it wrong and you risk being pilloried as a practitioner of quasi-scientific voodoo as the practice of polling is debunked. Without doubt it’s been a tough 18 months for...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Oct 2016 | European Union, Politics
MPs from across the political spectrum have joined calls for a parliamentary vote on the terms of the UK leaving the European Union, despite the Prime Minister insisting such efforts will not “thwart the will of the British people.” In an escalating row, prominent MPs...
by Chris Rogers | 30 Sep 2016 | Politics
Following Jeremy Corbyn’s landslide re-election to the Labour leadership, his address to the Labour Party Conference sought to elaborate on the way forward for the party during Brexit. Corbyn refused to make “false promises” on immigration numbers, instead proposing...
by Chris Rogers | 29 Sep 2016 | Politics
As delegates head home from Liverpool and weary political correspondents prepare for their fourth party conference, thoughts inevitably turn to how one would sum up the Labour conference. At best it was a mixed bag. There is no real sense that the conference has...
