All posts by Paul Whiteley
Boris Johnson resignation: why Rishi Sunak can’t afford to lose more than one of three impending byelections
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The turmoil in the Conservative party unleashed by Boris Johnson’s abrupt resignation from parliament has triggered three separate byelections. The first is in the former prime minister’s London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, where he had a…
What does high immigration mean for the government’s popularity? What data on voting habits tells us
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The news from the Office of National Statistics that net migration reached a record high of 606,000 in 2022 is likely to have embarrassed the government, particularly the home secretary, Suella Braverman. For years, successive prime ministers have…
Boris Johnson: what the result of the confidence vote means for the PM and the Conservative Party
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The verdict is in. Boris Johnson retains the confidence of the Conservative Party. For now. Johnson received the votes of 211 out of 359 Tory MPs in support of his leadership, which means that technically he won. But…