{"id":1334,"date":"2019-12-11T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:43:47","slug":"election-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2019\/12\/11\/election-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Politics and IR in the News: Election Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">On the eve of the general election, here is a selection of political commentary by academics within the School of Politics and International Relations. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/story\/6532291\/britains-parties-in-final-hunt-for-votes\/\">&#8216;Britain&#8217;s parties in final hunt for votes&#8217;, <\/a>Professor Matthew Goodwin, <em>The Canberra Times<\/em>, 9th December<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/boris-johnson-and-jeremy-corbyns-final-election-debate-academic-experts-on-their-claims-127668\">&#8216;Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s final election debate: academic experts on their claims&#8217;<\/a>, Professor Feargal Cochrane,\u00a0<em>The Conversation, <\/em>7th December<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/02\/jo-swinson-corbyn-hung-parliament-lib-dems-support-labour\">&#8216;Jo Swinson says she won&#8217;t back Corbyn, but ultimately she&#8217;ll have to&#8217;<\/a>, Professor Matthew Goodwin,\u00a0<em>The Guardian, <\/em>2nd December<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reaction.life\/general-election-2019-lack-of-clarity-on-brexit-could-make-the-difference\/\">&#8216;General election 2019: Lack of clarity on Brexit could make the difference&#8217;<\/a>, Professor Matthew Goodwin,\u00a0<em>Reaction,\u00a0<\/em>2nd December<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/general-election-2019-identity-is-the-explosive-charge-set-to-blow-a-hole-in-labours-red-wall-cgpqvn6mq\">&#8216;General election 2019: Identity is the explosive charge set to blow a hole in Labour&#8217;s Red Wall&#8217;<\/a><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">, <\/span>Professor Matthew Goodwin,\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>,\u00a01st December<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk-election-2019-the-parties-competing-visions-for-britains-place-in-the-world-127890\">&#8216;UK election 2019: the parties&#8217; competing visions for Britain&#8217;s place in the world&#8217;<\/a><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">, <\/span>Professor Richard Whitman,\u00a0<em>The Conversation, <\/em>28th November<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccdiscovery.com\/the-pact-between-leaders-around-brexit\">&#8221;The pact between leaders around &#8216;Brexit&#8217;<\/a>&#8216;. Professor Matthew Goodwin,\u00a0<em>CCDiscovery,\u00a0<\/em>19th November<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2019\/11\/18\/itv-election-debate-sidelining-jo-swinson-could-backfire-boris\/\">&#8216;ITV election debate: How sidelining Jo Swinson could backfire on Boris Johnson as Labour woos remainer voters&#8217;<\/a><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">, <\/span>Professor Matthew Goodwin,\u00a0<em>The Telegraph,\u00a0<\/em>18th November<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/whos-most-likely-to-win-the-general-election-politics-where-next-podcast\">&#8216;Who&#8217;s most likely to win the general election? | Politics: Where Next? podcast&#8217;<\/a>, Professor Matthew Goodwin,\u00a0<em>Channel 4,\u00a0<\/em>15th November<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/europe\/nigel-farage-is-still-a-problem-for-boris-johnson-20191113-p53a2u\">&#8216;Nigel Farage is still a problem for Boris Johnson&#8217;<\/a><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">, <\/span>Professor Matthew Goodwin,\u00a0<em>Financial Review, <\/em>14th November<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7666409\/Nigel-Farage-faces-mounting-pressure-stand-down.html\">Nigel Farage faces mounting pressure to stand down as his backers warn that the Brexit Party\u2019s surging support could cost vital Tory seats at the election<\/a> \u2013 Professor Matthew Goodwin, <em>MailOnline<\/em>. Also featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/1202458\/election-2019-latest-brexit-party-nigel-farage-boris-johnson-tory-party-update\"><em>Express<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/54fd870c-047a-11ea-9afa-d9e2401fa7ca\"><em>FT.com<\/em><\/a>, <em>Sunday Times<\/em> (subscription), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theneweuropean.co.uk\/top-stories\/expert-pollster-says-brexit-party-won-t-win-a-single-seat-1-6364737\"><em>The New European<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/11\/05\/anti-brexit-parties-plan-remain-alliance-as-leavers-fail-to-agree-pact\/\"><em>Breitbart.com<\/em><\/a> and more. 8th November<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/dup-may-be-overestimating-opposition-to-irish-sea-border-in-northern-ireland-new-survey-126322\">&#8216;DUP may be overestimating opposition to Irish Sea border in Northern Ireland- new survey&#8217;<\/a>, Professor Feargal Cochrane,\u00a0<em>The Conversation,\u00a0<\/em>7th November<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the general election, here is a selection of political commentary by academics within the School of Politics and International Relations. &#8216;Britain&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2019\/12\/11\/election-round-up\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54314,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}