Category: Explainer
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Did the 2017 General Election change our approach to young people in politics?
It seems that last week youth had a great influence in the outcome of the elections. Their turnout was firstly surprisingly high: Labour MP David Lammy claims it reached up to 72%, although a YouGov survey only puts it at 66%. With an overall turnout at 68%, it would mean that under 25s went out…
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How do DUP policies stack up?
The DUP have agreed to support Theresa May without forming a coalition. Their 10 MPs take the Conservatives over the 326 seat line to form a government by 2 seats. But how do their views compare across key issues? Through the general election campaign we analysed all the main party manifestos, and have add the…
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A hung Parliament: which parties most agree?
During the election campaign, we analysed the main party manifestos across over 160 statements and policies. The purpose: to help voters find their best match and have their say on the key issues. In doing so we could also show how much the parties agreed or disagreed with each other. You can compare them individually…
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Which political party leaders do voters trust?
Today I’ve begun to look at the insights beginning to form from our ‘Who should I vote for?’ survey. With over 120 questions, the survey covers key policy areas based on the main UK political party manifestos. As well as helping people to decide on which party best matches their values we will be sending the aggregated…
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UK Metro mayors budgets
https://medium.com/@thedancingflea/the-west-midlands-combined-authority-where-does-the-money-come-from-40098bc22876
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Briefing notes: Devolution in England
An occasional series where we publish briefing notes we’ve put together for our own internal use that we think might be useful to others. What does devolution in England mean? Unlike in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the whole country or principality was given devolved powers, England is being given devolved powers at a…
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Behind the scenes of: ‘How do you compare with Theresa May?’
‘How do you compare with Theresa May?‘ is a new collection of questions we launched yesterday. In this post I aim to explain how we went about creating it, some of the challenges doing so poses and how we plan to answer those. What we did To create the collection ‘How do you compare with…