There are two ways for drivers to pay Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) each year: in one lump sum or in monthly instalments. But one is costlier.

Twenty-three (!) principal authority contests this week, for twenty-four seats, and although it has been a good start to... … ...

A bumper fifteen council by-elections this week, including a clutch from Wales caused by councillors getting elected to the ...

A press release from the Liberal Democrats brings the news: Richard Kilpatrick has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Greater Manchester in the upcoming mayoral election to replace ...

Welcome to PollBase, my database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943 and the largest such dataset. It also includes an increasing range of party leader and government ...

Read below my posts about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys. You can sign up for my weekly polling newsletter, ...

So far we’ve had polls giving Andy Burnham a three, ten and five point lead, all from established pollsters. We now also have a new poll from a newer polling firm, Convergent, who are a member of the ...

The sample size on this poll in 518, which falls to an unweighted total of 407 for the headline voting intention. That’s large enough for the significant risks involved in this by-election poll being ...

One of the big problems with Labour’s Representation of the People Bill is the number of loopholes it leaves for big political donations to unduly influence British politics. I’ve talked before about ...

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is not really an episode of the podcast but rather a rerun of an interview I did for the YIMBY Pod with James O’Malley, talking about the problems with ...

There were three principal authority council contests this week, starting with a tricky Liberal Democrat defence of a seat where the Lib Dem councillor had been one of eight to leave the Lib Dem group ...