In life, the impossible question is, ‘What if?’. What if this or that had or hadn’t happened? British politics has been full of these ‘sliding door’ moments in the last 20 years. Liam Fitzpatrick gets out his crystal ball and looks at the alternative realities...
Safe seats are the biggest foregone conclusion in politics. A footnote in the story of Election Night, most counts don’t even get a mention on the TV coverage. But politics biggest losers are also arguably it’s most important. Liam Fitzpatrick tells the story of safe...
Politics professor and polling guru Tim Bale’s second book on the Conservative Party lays bare the chaos and incompetence of our government in the post-Brexit era. Bale’s first book examined how the party evolved from the leadership of Margaret Thatcher to that of...
Countless fuck-ups, scandals and – pigs? The UK Prime Ministers have provided us with some huge mistakes over the last 20 years, so here’s Punching Up’s top five… 5: Liz Truss (that’s it, that’s the heading) Liz Truss will very probably go down as the most...
