Voting intention in Scottish and UK elections, plus views on political parties and leaders
2nd May 2022 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
Just twelve months after last year’s Holyrood election, Scotland goes to the polls again this week. This time the ballot is for all 1,226 seats on Scotland’s 32 councils. The electoral system, however, is very different. The local elections will be held using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system of proportional representation that was first […]
14th April 2022 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders
14th April 2022 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders
5th April 2022 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders
18th March 2022 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
It has not been an easy winter for the Scottish Conservatives, whose conference takes place in Aberdeen today and tomorrow. The spring might not prove any easier either. The party reacted nervously to the ‘partygate’ row that engulfed the Prime Minister before and after Christmas. Most immediately it led to a call from its leader, […]
11th March 2022 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
Being a junior partner in government can be a painful and difficult experience. Just ask the Liberal Democrats, who still have to recover from the fallout from their decision in 2010 to enter into a coalition with the Conservatives at Westminster. Yet, so far at least, the decision of the Scottish Greens, who meet in […]
4th March 2022 Comment Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed
One of the signs of spring north of the border is the advent of the Scottish party conference season. The pandemic, of course, disrupted all of that, but today sees the opening of the first of three in-person Scottish party conferences, the first such clutch of gatherings since lockdown restrictions were initially introduced almost exactly […]
14th February 2022 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders
14th February 2022 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders
26th January 2022 Scotland Question Elections, parties & leaders
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