Every functioning party has red lines. Positions which are so central to its identity that abandoning them means abandoning what the party is for. For Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives, net zero and...

This paper argues that the primary divide in values (Inglehart, 1977; 1990) between safety and self-expression lies in a different place for discrimin…

The Scottish Conservatives won a by-election for the first time in almost 60 years as they defeated the SNP.

Around three-quarters of those who can vote in any contest on who succeeds Starmer are not Labour Party members

The Dis/ability and Scottish Studies Working Group has formed to encourage critical engagement with narratives of illness and dis/ability in cross-period Scottish literature and culture. It aims to…

In a recent interview, the newly elected MP for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, has criticised fellow-MPs drinking whilst in Westminster. For Emma Peplow,

Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised

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Taking stock of twenty-five years of devolution in the United Kingdom. Guest editors: Nathalie Duclos and Marie-Violaine Louvet. Volume 46, Issue 1 of Parliaments, Estates and Representation

Canadian leader pitched British counterpart on nascent Defense Security and Resilience Bank, as industry and backbench calls mount for the U.K. to take part.

‘Nuclear deterrence can give us new opportunities. Why not?’ Latvian PM tells POLITICO.

Cambridge Core - European Political Science Review - Volume 18 - Issue 1

Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States By Philipp M. Lutscher, University of Oslo, and Karsten Donnay, University of Zurich In authoritarian regimes, governments regularly use overt and heavy-handed visual propaganda to effectively signal regime strength and deter protests. Can democratic leaders also use this so-called hard propaganda to project strength, or does this kind of authoritarian-style messaging potentially backfire because of societal norms for leaders’ behavior?

The former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader was undergoing a procedure at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

A statement adopted by the European Parliament’s political leaders expressed "unequivocal support to Greenland and Denmark" and criticised the US's stated aim of taking control of the Danish territory.

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