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My analysis of this week's elections for the Observer - Brexit may be done but the aftershocks of the referendum are still reverberating through England in the form of shifting

Another sleeper story in the English locals results is Con decline and LD/Lab advance in "blue wall" constituencies which voted Remain in 2016 but returned Con MPs in 2019. Here

*Sigh*. Disappointing to see that Guardian, like many media orgs, continues to focus exclusively on the "numbers game" Q, which is a poor way to measure imm attitudes. 1/2https://twitter.com/alexandreafonso/status/1320735350579437

This is one of the really intriguing questions of the next 9 days - how do campaigns adapt to a historically unprecedented level of really early turnout?https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1320431044240252929 In several of

Brexitland is out today! To celebrate the release of our new book I'm going to put up a graph a day here highlighting some of the big themes we discuss.

How plausible is this “COVID has driven decline in radical right” hypothesis? Let’s take just a simple look at the polling trends:Germany: Rad rt decline began in early 2019, accelerated

V interesting read. Along with the theories posited here, I can think of a couple of other reasons why Cons might prefer to keep culture wars issues at arms length,

Tweets like this are doing big numbers at the moment, and while its worth underlining that Trump (a) can still win and (b) has an Electoral College advantage, its also

Migration to Britain now running above the peaks seen before Brexit. Net migration now back around 300k a year. EU migration down sharply, replace by non-EU migration.Yet the political salience

The deep partisan divide on immigration evident here long predates Brexit. Indeed the past four years have paradoxically been ones of relative calm on this issue. Polls like this suggest

This awful story stems from an aspect of our citizenship law that is not well understood - people can be born here and live their whole lives here without acquiring

The Cummings story feels like something it should be impossible for a PM and govt to brazen out, until you remember all the other things the Johnson govt have already