As we step into Christmas and the New Year, the Vuelio Political Team have been thinking and writing about the key developments that pervaded UK policy and politics in 2024. Here is our overview… Treating ...

Written by Michael Kane and Laura Fitzgerald.  Nearly four months on from the 2024 General Election and the UK’s first female Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally delivered the Government’s Budget. The hefty 170-page document, and Reeves’ ...

The Conservative leadership candidates have all given their pitch to the party hoping to succeed Rishi Sunak. The last time Conservative members chose their leader, they went for Liz Truss. This time the choice will ...

Written by Michael Kane and Helen Stott from the Vuelio Political Team.  Our blog last week highlighted that, despite the Labour leadership’s disciplinarian grasp on policy development, the fringes at last week’s Labour conference still ...

Written by Michael Kane and Helen Stott on the Vuelio Political Team, reporting from 2024’s UK Party Conferences.  While the attention of the political media may have been on the movements within the main conference ...

Was getting unemployed people into employment a key priority for the Conservative Government? Attempts included the New Back to Work Plan, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s promise to tackle what he called ‘sick-note culture’, and ...

During the King’s Speech, an Employment Rights Bill was promised by the Labour Government. The Bill aims to deliver on policies set out in the Plan to Make Work Pay. Commitments in the plan include ...

In attempts to highlight its importance, Labour dedicated two pages of its manifesto to equalities in a section entitled ‘Respect and opportunity for all’. Here, they promised to ‘ensure [that] no matter whatever your background, ...

When speaking prior to July 2024’s General Election, the then-Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy described Labour’s foreign policy as ‘progressive realism’ which ‘advocates using realist means to pursue progressive ends’. In practice, he said this ...

The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill was the first introduced by the new Labour Government in Parliament. This Bill is meant to deliver on Labour’s manifesto commitment to reform the railways and bring them ...

Written by Helen Stott and Michael Kane. It was nearly a month ago that the United Kingdom voted to deliver Labour to their first electoral majority since 2005, leaving the Conservatives with a measly 121 ...

Written by Michael Kane and Helen Stott.  With the King’s Speech, Labour may have hoped to represent an emancipatory moment after almost a generation in what seemed to be perennial opposition. However, it was instead ...

Just over 40 years ago, Liberal Democrats forerunner the SDP-Liberal Alliance returned their best collective election result in 1983 as they finished third – only 2% below the Labour party. While the party might have ...

By Phoebe-Jane Boyd, Michael Kane, and Dahye Lee. Despite the General Election announcement by the Government on a rain-soaked Wednesday evening coming as a complete surprise, the themes and dividing lines that have defined the ...

By Phoebe-Jane Boyd, Dahye Lee, and Ingrid Marin.  While political experts predict a lack of enthusiasm from the public when it comes to voting on 4 July, there has been growing interest in the scandals ...

The prolonged period of uncertainty in Northern Irish politics may finally be coming to an end with the restoration of local governance.  But what exactly does this mean for the future of politics in Northern ...

Labour leader Keir Starmer is expected to become the UK’s next Prime Minister – here we look at questions he and the Labour party should be looking to find answers to. Could the lack of ...

By Phoebe-Jane Boyd, Dahye Lee, and Ingrid Marin.  After a wave of manifesto releases last week, Reform UK have released their ‘contract’ for the UK General Election. In rebranding the manifesto as a ‘contract’, and ...

By Phoebe-Jane Boyd, Dahye Lee, and Ingrid Marin.  This week represented the midpoint of the General Election campaign and it was a pivotal moment for all parties to pitch to voters. Manifestos from the main ...

By Phoebe-Jane Boyd, Dahye Lee, and Ingrid Marin.  Representatives from seven parties took to the stage for Friday 7 June’s BBC Election Debate 2024. Following on from ITV’s broadcast of Sunak vs Starmer’s debate the ...