John Curtice receives funding from UKRI-ESRC. Tim Bale has previously received funding for research on the Conservative Party and party members from the Leverhulme Trust and from the Economic and ...

“BUILDING SOCIAL capital will not be easy, but it is the key to making democracy work,” wrote Robert Putnam, an American political scientist, in 1993. He found that places where people trust and ...

John Curtice currently receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The outcome of last year’s general election left an important question hanging in the air. Could the UK’s ...

A new study finds that the socio-economic class system in Britain is more complicated than previously thought. Instead of the standard categories... Britain's Class System More Complicated Than Once ...

For a brief period in the middle of the last decade, the easiest way to flummox a Labour politician was to offer him a cup of coffee and a choice of biscuit. In an interview in 2016 Owen Smith, a ...