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Patrick English

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Reform and young people in the context of votes at 16

This week’s announcement of Government plans to lower the legal voting age for UK general elections to 16 has caused quite a stir. The proposals have been met with a wide range of responses, views, and takes. One which particularly caught m...

10 months ago
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Four mayors and a political funeral

I’ve been working and focusing a lot lately on anything and everything not to do with British politics recently, with national elections in Australia, Germany, and Canada taking up most of my time and mental space since the start of the yea...

a year ago
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Germany. Nothing but Germany.

This week, we at YouGov released our final MRP projection and regular vote intention monitor for Sunday’s snap German federal election. MPs will be elected by Germans to the Bundestag (parliament) tomorrow, with exit polls expected in the e...

a year ago
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On assisted dying, and on Lincolnshire

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MPs are expected to vote on the second reading of the assisted dying bill at around about 2:30pm today. Ahead of that, I explored where...

a year ago
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Whatever next in the Conservative Party leadership contest?

And so we move into members voting stage of the 2024 Conservative leadership contest. Yesterday’s rather shock result saw the frontrunner from the previous (third) round of MPs’ voting, James Cleverly, eliminated at the final parliamentary...

2 years ago
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