For decades, the study of British politics has been defined by an extreme negativity bias, focusing almost exclusively on policy blunders, failures, fiascos, disasters, and crises. Although this ...

When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday he is stepping down, he became the sixth person to stand in front of No. 10 Downing Street to make a farewell speech in a turbulent decade of U.K.

On dysfunctional governance in the United Kingdom. In July 2024, the Conservative Party was ejected from office with an ignominy that was towering and by a margin unprecedented in its long history.

Do you know which prime minister brought 'fallen women' to 10 Downing Street? Or which one fought a duel? Or who was known as 'the Goat'? Take a political journey through nearly 300 years of high ...

At around 19 years old, Larry the Cat has become something of a British institution. Officially known as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", he has spent more than a decade and a half at the ...

Conspiratorial narratives have always swirled around the corridors of Number 10. Studies of the British style of government have, for decades, explored the role of unofficial briefings and the leaking ...

Local elections across England delivered dire results for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour Party, as they lost over six hundred council seats, with many of them flipping to Nigel Farage’s ...

It is less than 18 months since Britain’s Labour Party won a general election with one of the biggest parliamentary majorities in history. Such dominance, which inflicted on the Conservatives the ...

The 2024 election was the most expensive in British political history, new figures confirm. Across parties, candidates and third parties, a whopping £94.5 million was spent. This compares with £72.6 ...