The local elections have given Britain’s electoral reform debate its strongest stimulus since 2011. Reform’s breakthrough, Labour’s losses, Conservative weakness and the rise of smaller parties have ...

For much of modern British constitutional history, we formally pretended that the office of prime minister did not exist. In practice, the office is usually dated back to the 1720s and the ascendancy ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

In the run-up to every election in my Middle England market town, a light drizzle of campaign posters appears in windows. Mostly Labour, or “the Red Team”, as my youngest daughter calls them.

Once upon a time Birmingham was described as “the best-governed city in the world”. The description was made in 1890 by New York’s august Harper’s magazine: The 1890 article went on for 12 pages, and ...

Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...