🎧 Election 2024: What's behind the Starmer-Sunak stand-off?

🎧 On the latest episode of The Expert Factor Hannah White, Paul Johnson and Anand Menon gather in the studio to discuss Sunak's surprise election announcement and its implications

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One interesting fact in these graphs by Europe Elects often overlooked about EP elections - due to smaller member states getting proportionally more seats, there is a difference between seats and popular vote.

And in the popular vote, the gap betw EPP and S&D is much smaller:

As trailed on Times Radio last night....

📺 Next week Sunak & Starmer will go head-to-head in their first live TV debate of the election.

But when were TV debates first proposed? When did they first happen? And what formats do they take?

Read Sophie Stowers & Anthony Broxton's deep dive now 👇

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The Man, The Legend & The Goals!
Peter Lasher Lorimer
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Tonight we fact checked #BBCQT live. We looked at the facts on:

🏥 The NHS
💂 The size of the Army
📚 Private school fees
➕ And more!
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'There are some good signs in the economic data - but people aren't really feeling that at the moment'

🎧 On the latest episode of The Expert Factor Paul Johnson, Hannah White and Anand Menon discuss Sunak's surprise election announcement

🎧 instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/expert…

Campaigning is over in the world's biggest election in India. First exit poll is expected in less than an hour.

I endorse this explainer... including a good paragraph on the limitations of MRP and what to look out for!

Two murderous dictators: the master and his vassal

Such a fascinating and important picture.

Unremarked by world media, the summit this week of the Iranian tyrant, in power since 1989, and his Syrian client, whose family have been in power since 1969 and who inherited his

🗣️ 'I think there is a big discussion we should have about candidate selection'.

🤓 Join Hannah White, Anand Menon and Paul Johnson for the first special episode looking at the the election campaign...

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Congratulations to Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello 🧡 on the culmination of their research on EU migrant workers in Great Yarmouth.

For today’s Financial Times I’ve written about voter archetypes, why they matter, including the voter who More in Common has identified as been crucial to determining the size of any Labour victory/Tory defeat in this election. “Whitby Woman”. ft.com/content/621a76…

I’ve been a little quiet lately while we work on some THINGS here at YouGov towers.

We’ve got so much exciting stuff coming down the pipeline that we can’t wait to share with everybody!

I’m sure you’re all waiting patiently for a certain model of ours… it’s coming!

Of course they scrapped a far bigger levelling up fund to pay for the national service scheme

Parties should avoid tax pledges they may come to regret via Financial Times
Could not agree more and we must hope opportunities for structural reform at the beginning of a new Parliament will not get lost because of campaign promises. But it will be hard. on.ft.com/4dX58zf

Column in this morning’s Times: on the why this week on Labour’s bus took me all the way back to school

thetimes.co.uk/article/d9e3ce…

🗳️ With the election fast approaching, there’s one thing you’re sure to hear more & more about: POLLS.

👀 Polling seems to be everywhere.

🧐 But what actually is it? How does it work? And how can we tell which ones to trust?

📊 Our guide explains.

🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/pollin…

Brilliant from ⁦Helen Miller⁩ on why pledges not to increase various taxes are a bad idea. Absent serious spending cuts, tax increases will be needed if self imposed fiscal rules are to be met. The more tools available the better. ft.com/content/d09227…

Exciting news!

From today you can get all of our Times and Sunday Times politics newsletters for free ahead of the election

AND there’s a new Saturday email from the team, kicked off by Steven Swinford this morning

Sign up 👇

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