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Posted 13 December 2019

POLSIS Academics provide Election Post-Mortem

Several members of staff spoke at a special seminar on the morning after the British general election to discuss the results and their implications.

Posted 11 December 2019

Will Boris Johnson get the majority he needs to finish Brexit at last?

Professor David Cutts and Dr Tim Haughton in The Washington Post: These four things could determine this week's U.K. election.

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Post-Truth Politics: Impacts on the Public Sphere and the Quality of Public Deliberation

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