There are no real precedents and emotions are still raw, but good can come from this mess if ownership models change

Badenoch’s increasing tendency towards being ‘extremely online’ has led the party to paint itself into an ‘anti-woke’ corner that, to the majority of Brits who do not spend much time online…

There is a growing consensus in party politics that new fault lines are emerging, and scholars increasingly characterise competition as multidimensional. In a multidimensional space, parties can ad...

The party faces serious structural problems in an era of growing political polarisation

Since the 2024 general election the Liberal Democrat vote share in national polls has remained relatively flat, with calls for Ed Davey to be more radical amid concerns about the visibility of the par...

Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach

Western liberal parties are struggling to win ‘market cosmopolitan’ voters despite sharing their values

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Public debate treats conditionality as a single dial to be turned up or down to impose stricter discipline on private actors. That framing obscures the choices that actually matter.

A growing share of Western European electorates holds a set of ideological positions to which only liberal parties can adequately cater, argues Alexander Davenport. While this has yet to bring increas...