Getty Images
Arguments for electoral reform in the UK just got stronger with a low Labour vote delivering a massively disproportionate number of seats.
The Conservatives have lost the general election.
Alamy/PA Images/Temilade Adelaja
The Conservative party has been voted out of office in a Labour landslide.
Follow along with The Conversation’s coverage of the general election results.
Jill O'Donnell/Alamy
Farage may be setting the scene for complaints of election rigging when the results come in.
PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Its golden age as a seaside town may be over, but left behind places like Clacton are not lacking in pride.
G F.
Alamy/John Giles
The Conservatives campaigned against changing the voting system in 2011, but it could have saved them from a potential wipeout at this election.
Some potholes are deep and cause problems for cyclists.
yuriyt
Will Labour’s pothole politics provide the meaningful infrastructure investment desperately needed in Britain?
Alamy/Associated Press/Kate Morris/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Farage and the Mail were previously close ideological bedfellows.
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, at the party’s economic policy launch on June 10 2024.
Tolga Akmen/EPA
Winning just a few seats would mean Reform would qualify for ‘short money’ – public funding for its operations – and would no longer have to rely on its own small donations pool.
Alamy/Mark Hawkins
Boundary changes are making this election difficult to map, so we turned to the census.
Mark Thomas/Alamy
Making a ‘boring’ campaign more exciting, or just distracting from the issues that matter most?
Nigel Farage in one of his 10 appearances on Question Time in the last decade.
WENN/Alamy
The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
Tolga Akmen/EPA
Data from Ukip’s performance in 2017 shows that once a certain tipping point is passed, Reform is indeed a significant threat to the Tories.
Alamy/PA/Ludovic Marin
The prime minister attempted to play the populist and ended up playing into the hands of Nigel Farage.
EPA/Jonathan Hordle /ITV
The day’s agenda was already set by Nigel Farage, hours before the two party leaders stepped on stage.
EPA/Tolga Akmen
Research from political science shows that rightwing voters respond to narratives that harken back to a better time.
Nigel Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party, speaks during the National Conservatism conference in Brussels on April 16, 2024.
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Trying to silence the radical right isn’t the way forward. Not only is it likely to backfire, it will probably galvanize the movement’s leaders.
EPA/Robin Utrecht
Extremists are not ‘capturing’ our systems – they are part of them.
Ex-politician Nigel Farage accused his bank of refusing his business because of his political views.
Frank 2012/Shutterstock
Research shows banks – especially private banks – have always been concerned about their customers’ social status and respectability.
Alamy/ Colin McPherson
Banks in the UK have to conduct extra checks on people more at risk of blackmail – and an easier option is sometimes just to say no to giving them and account.