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Jul 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Alex Nurse |Christine Huebner |Louise Mallinder |Nathan Critch |Stephen Clear
The king’s speech has been delivered, marking the state opening of parliament (technically, this was the first king’s speech with a Labour government in 74 years). The speech was written by Keir Starmer’s government, not the king, and lays out the government’s agenda for the coming year. The Conversation’s academic experts break down the key policies, from planning reform to votes at 16. Read the rest of our expert reactions to the government’s plans for the economy and public services here.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Alex Nurse |Anupam Nanda |Chia-Lin Chen |Christine Huebner |Colin Nolden |Graham Haughton | +8 more
The king’s speech has been delivered, marking the state opening of parliament (technically, this was the first king’s speech with a Labour government in 74 years). The speech was written by Keir Starmer’s government, not the king, and lays out the government’s agenda for the coming year. The Conversation’s academic experts break down the key policies, from planning reform to votes at 16.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Alex Nurse |Colin Nolden |Jane Parry |Phil Tomlinson
The king’s speech has been delivered, marking the state opening of parliament (technically, this was the first king’s speech with a Labour government in 74 years). The speech was written by Keir Starmer’s government, not the king, and lays out the government’s agenda for the coming year. Check back here throughout the day as The Conversation’s academic experts break down the key policies, from planning reform to votes at 16.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
eastangliabylines.co.uk | Alex Nurse
Keir Starmer’s Labour party has won the UK general election in a landslide. Its huge majority should, in theory, give Starmer the clout to see through most of his political agenda. But in reality, the victory celebrations might prove short-lived, given the size of the challenges in front of him. When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, he inherited a strong economy and a tide of booming national optimism.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
dehai.org | David Lees |Alex Nurse |Khalid Siddig |Rob Vos
Despite weeks of opinion polls predicting France’s far right would sweep to power in the legislative elections, Sunday’s second round of polling resulted in Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and its allies being forced into third place by the New Popular Front alliance of leftwing and green parties, and Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition. France will now have a hung parliament. David Lees looks at what ‘s happened.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Alex Nurse
By Alex Nurse For The ConversationLiverpool Keir Starmer’s Labour party has won the UK general election in a landslide. Its huge majority should, in theory, give Starmer the clout to see through most of his political agenda. But in reality, the victory celebrations might prove short-lived, given the size of the challenges in front of him. When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, he inherited a strong economy and a tide of booming national optimism.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Alex Nurse
Keir Starmer’s Labour party has won the UK general election in a landslide. Its huge majority should, in theory, give Starmer the clout to see through most of his political agenda. But in reality, the victory celebrations might prove short-lived, given the size of the challenges in front of him. When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, he inherited a strong economy and a tide of booming national optimism.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Alex Nurse
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Alex Nurse
By Alex Nurse, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Liverpool
In the UK’s 2019 general election, regional inequality took centre stage. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson harnessed the widespread pro-Brexit sentiment and capitalised on how the Labour Party had been weakened under Jeremy Corbyn to storm to victory.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Alex Nurse
In the UK’s 2019 general election, regional inequality took centre stage. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson harnessed the widespread pro-Brexit sentiment and capitalised on how the Labour Party had been weakened under Jeremy Corbyn to storm to victory. Johnson owed his win as much to turning to northern, traditionally Labour seats (in what has now become known as the “red wall”) as to the Conservatives’ tradiitonal southern heartlands.
