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A polite alternative to the BNP?
The January 2011 Oldham by-election confirmed the UK Independence Party (UKIP) as the fourth largest party in British politics, ahead of the British National Party (BNP). With local elections looming,...
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UKIP: the purple peril?
The influential blog Left Foot Forward has just posted a summary of a study of the UKIP vote by one of our lecturers Dr Matt Goodwin and his co-authors Dr Robert Ford and Dr David Cutts. As we head...
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Politics of Diversity Special Edition
According to Ipsos MORI 75% of Britons believe that immigration is a ‘problem’ while Islamophobia appears to be on the rise. The three main parties have sought, in their different ways, to address...
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The Conservatives: a ‘polite alternative’ to the BNP?
In an insightful piece in this blog, Matthew Goodwin reported on his research about the UKIP and the BNP, portraying the former as a ‘polite alternative’ to the latter or the ‘BNP in Blazers’. Its...
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Why the far-right could prosper in Britain
The Radio 4 programme ‘Four Thought’ recently aired my talk on the prospects for the far right in Britain. A slightly different version was published in the BBC News magazine, while a Kindle edition...
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UKIP’s Awkward Relationship With the Far Right
Over at the Guardian Comment is Free, Dr Matt Goodwin responds to some criticism from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) about one of his latest research reports. …
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Polling Observatory #14: Cameron in Crisis? Conservative collapse continues
This is the fourteenth of a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls.By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of the...
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What happened to the BNP?
The British political arena has long been an inhospitable place for minor parties. While UKIP is the latest to turn heads, from one election to the next history is littered with failed contenders. Back...
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EU membership: UKIP and the Conservatives are competing over an issue most...
Image by Euro Realist European integration has long been a divisive issue in British politics, leading to differences within and between parties. Voters’ views on this tend to vary by party support...
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Polling Observatory #22: Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP on the up, but...
This is the twenty-second in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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Polling Observatory #23: The continued chill in Conservative Party support, a...
This is the twenty-third in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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Polling Observatory #24: Blue revival, purple advance
This is the twenty-fourth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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Polling Observatory #25: UKIP surge, but who do they hurt?
This is the twenty-fifth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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Polling Observatory #26: Politics becalmed as summer approaches
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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Polling Observatory #27: Labour in crisis? Tories resurgent? Not really.
This is the twenty-seventh in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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Polling Observatory conference season update #2 – UKIP
This is the twenty-ninth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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Polling Observatory 31: No joy from the polls as festive season approaches
This is the thirty-first in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence we can reduce the impact of...
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“Revolt on the Right” by Robert Ford and Matthew J. Goodwin.
The first book to go on the new Ballots and Bullets section – The Bookshelf -, is Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain (Extremism and Democracy), written by...
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