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Posts Tagged: Bedford

James Frayne: Ten errors that Conservatives must avoid making about the new working class voters who backed them last month

Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.

By James Frayne | 21 January 2020 | 72 comments

Sunder Katwala: Childcare, not Kashmir. Neither Narendra Modi nor Imran Khan are candidates in this election.

Treat claims of a communalist election with suspicion. The evidence suggests that ethnic minority voters prioritise domestic issues over foreign policy ones.

By Sunder Katwala | 15 November 2019 | 6 comments

Election Battlegrounds 4) East of England

Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.

By Henry Hill | 13 November 2019 | 47 comments

The Australian Liberals know who their target voters are. The Conservatives don’t seem to have a clue.

Amidst the gathering leadership election debate, there is a lack of focus on who such voters are and where they live.

By Paul Goodman | 20 May 2019 | 146 comments

Candidate selection news: Shortlists for Bedford and Bury North

Updated, plus: the results of four recent contests in target seats – Bishop Auckland, Bristol North West, Crewe and Nantwich, and Ipswich.

By Mark Wallace | 11 October 2018 | 11 comments

Candidate applications open for next target seats: Bedford and Ipswich

There are early signs of a common profile of the seats chosen as targets.

By Mark Wallace | 10 July 2018 | 36 comments

Sunder Katwala: How ethnic minority voters cost May her majority

If the Conservatives had won 42 per cent from them too, our research projects that she would have won with a comfortable 42-seat majority.

By Sunder Katwala | 29 September 2017 | 31 comments

Mark Lehain: Cutting the Free School programme would be short-sighted, damaging to standards, and un-Conservative

Free schools are changing lives for the better, and have proved popular despite the early naysaying. Greening must shut down talk of scrapping the policy.

By Mark Lehain | 12 July 2017 | 16 comments

Battleground Seats 11) East of England

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

By Henry Hill | 5 June 2017 | 3 comments

Cllr Anthony Boutall: How our EU membership means broken pavements in Bedford

More spending for the EU has meant sharper austerity for local government.

By Anthony Boutall | 8 June 2016 | 13 comments

Battlegrounds Revisited 4) East of England

A handful of gains from the Liberal Democrats do little to disguise a total stalemate between Labour and the Tories in this region.

By Henry Hill | 11 June 2015 | 3 comments

Sunder Katwala: Here is early evidence that the Conservatives are now winning more ethnic minority votes

A Survation poll commissioned by British Future finds that David Cameron’s party won a majority of Hindu votes – and also polled well with other Asian voters in the south.

By Sunder Katwala | 25 May 2015 | 16 comments

The Election Battleground 4) East of England

The fourth in our series investigates the East of England, where the minor parties are making their presence felt in a traditional Tory-Labour front.

By Henry Hill | 12 March 2015 | 3 comments

Andrew Bell: 15 hospitals whose fate could swing the next election

Health is a key issue at local as well as national level, and 11 of these troubled institutions are in Conservative-held seats.

By Andrew Bell | 2 January 2015 | 4 comments

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