Nicholas Allen
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Andrew Bridgen on
@BBCNews
just now: "This deal is worse than Chequers". Naga Munchetty: "Have you read it?" Bridgen "[bluster].... No."
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My new co-lecturer for PR2480 John Bercow delivering his first lecture
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
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Now that the people are prepared to clap for their public services, will they pay the taxes needed? Wondering for GE2024
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Looking forward to the day when the square is again full of students!
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
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Until relatively recently, being sacked from cabinet usually meant the end of a politician's frontbench career. There were exceptions - Home brought back Selwyn Lloyd after his dismissal by Macmillan in July 1962
See doi:10.1017/S000712340999007X
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Did the UK parties move leftwards in 2017
@chrishanretty
? Yes, according to pre-release
@manifesto_proj
data. Labour took the biggest stride!
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I've just taught the most exciting British-politics seminar of my life. And it had everything to do with watching live the PM resign. I need a drink
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Recent goings on have given a new spin on that age-old exam question: has Britain become a multi-party system?
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Soon to be available in all good bookshops! With chapters by Tom Quinn, John Curtice, Paul Whiteley, Harold Clarke,
@GoodwinMJ
@robjohns75
@merylkenny
Sarah Birch and
@ProfRosieCamp
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I hope no student will use 'I was only following my instincts' to justify not handing in an essay...
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Very exciting news! I'm very much looking forward to the privilege of serving as a trustee of the
@PolStudiesAssoc
📣 Exciting news! The results are in for the 2023 PSA trustee election.
@AlberroHeather
and
@ProfNJAllen
have been elected to serve their first terms, while Dr Manjeet Ramgotra serves a second term as Chair of the PSA’s EDI Working Group.
Congrats! 👏🎉
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Absolutely delighted that
@RoyalHolloway
@rhulpir
will be one of the 24!!!🎓
We're thrilled to announce that 24 universities will now offer students the innovative and unique Parliamentary Studies module from the next academic year.
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Many congratulations to
@rhulpirp
alumna
@Laura__Serra
for winning the
@PolStudiesAssoc
McDougall Tust 2024 prize!!
@chrishanretty
@olhe
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Second, it could erode norms of good conduct among politicians more generally. Swift and easy comebacks lessen the costs of rule breaking and other undesirable behaviour 5/7
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OTD in 2009, I had my interview to join
@rhulpir
. The dept's potential was obvious. 13 years later, we've come 2nd in the
@timeshighered
REF rankings for Politics and IR. A wonderful achievement by so many wonderful colleagues!
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Walking through a deserted campus brings home that the soul of a university are its students
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***Truss bottom, Thatcher top, in new league table of PMs***🧵
Last summer, I organised another
@rhulpirp
group project that surveyed MPs about postwar PMs (Attlee to Truss). It was a follow-up to 2013 survey: 1/9
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Very happy that
@RoyalHolloway
has been selected as one of the universities to offer Parliamentary Studies. It's always such a fun module to teach :-)
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Hard to believe I've finished my last Democracy in Britain seminar of 2020-21. Hats off to the students this year!
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
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Counterfactual representation: a new model in which those with no power, who cannot act on behalf of others, are still sonehow responsible for the failings of the incumbent
The next time you can’t see a doctor, your kids can’t go to school and your train doesn’t turn up, remember,
@UKLabour
’s plan is to give even more power to those who are trying to hold Britain to ransom.
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How did the parties move between GE2017 and GE2019? The Tories rightwards, Labour leftwards. Based on pre-release data from
@manifesto_proj
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A student trip to Parliament on 5 November. And Guy is with us...
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
#PR2480
#PR3720
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Many congratulations to all
@rhulpir
and
@RoyalHolloway
receiving their results today. It's been a tough year - well done on getting through it!
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And we've arrived in Brussels!
@rhulpirp
@RoyalHolloway
@ggbenedetto
@JeanMonnetRHUL
@IvicaPetrikova
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Great to see this in print at last - and thanks to the amazing contributors
@ProfJaneGreen
@BartleProfessor
@ProfSobolewska
@robjohns75
(and others not on Twitter :-)
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A remarkable honeymoon period
Our latest VI poll has Labour with a *33pt* lead over the Tories, the highest of any recorded poll since the late 1990s. (Fieldwork 28-29 Sep)
Con: 21% (-7 from 23-25 Sep)
Lab: 54% (+9)
Lib Dem: 7% (-2)
Green: 6% (-1)
Reform UK: 4% (+1)
SNP: 5% (+1)
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Many thanks to
@UKParliament
for hosting the
@RoyalHolloway
@rhulpirp
Parliamentary Studies trip to Westminster, and particular thanks to brillian alumni
@joshfunnell_
@htmr____
@DAtherton94
Ellie and Hannah for their time
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Just confirmed my last speaker for next term's Parliamentary Studies module
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
. Eight guest speakers PLUS a (virtual) trip to Parliament... It's going to be fun!
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So what if I can't win a research grant... I can win a 3.72kg cake!
@StainesHH
@SpelthorneBC
#StainesuponThamesDay
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It takes a certain kind of political courage to keep digging when you're in a hole that someone else has dug for you.
"This wasn't a social occasion, it was staff having a drink after meetings"
Deputy PM Dominic Raab defends a new photo showing the PM and colleagues having a gathering in the No 10 garden during lockdown.
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Note to self: remind students they can't plagiarise in 'a very specific and limited way'
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The last fortnight has reminded me just how much fun teaching can and should be. I just hope my students feel the same😆
#sogladtobebackoncampus
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Here's the famous Salisbury cathedral, famous not only in Europe, but in the whole world, its famous for its 123-metre spire
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Many thanks to
@DavidLammy
for speaking to
@rhulpir
@RHUL_PIRSoc
@RoyalHolloway
students this evening. Great stuff!
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It's the first post-Covid
@rhulpirp
study trip to Brussels! Ready to depart!
#RHULBrussels2023
@ggbenedetto
@JeanMonnetRHUL
@LucyGoesSolo
@royalholloway
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You can ignore all other forecasts for GE2019.
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
students on
#RHULPR2480
have made their predictions for this year's sweepstake competition.
Averaging across them, the overall forecast is...
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Possible exam questions
#94
: "Is it now time for the Conservative and *Unionist* Party to change its name?"
#RHULPR2480
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I ordered this 4 weeks ago. It finally arrived today. Ho hum.
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Can I choose not to wear a mask in shops from 24 July because I want to test my eyesight? Asking for a friend...
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This abstract painting by my young son reminds me of a former US President...
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Fourth, insofar as this trickles down, voters will see miscreant and/or incompetent ministers coming back into govt. This could (deservedly) lower specific and diffuse trust.
Enough sermonizing! 7/7
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Before anyone starts complaining that the next PM (whoever he or she is) hasn’t taken office off the back of a general election, remember that (a) the UK is a parliamentary system and (b) it’s more common for UK PMships to begin this way. 1/4
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It is madness (and obscene) that some Tory MPs reckon it best to bring back a law-breaking, dishonest and chaotic former PM.
As Einstein put it, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
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I think I've picked a good day to visit
@UKParliament
for a meeting with the Parliamentary Studies team
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
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That was an interesting morning: the second part of my PR2480 lecture was delivered open-air because of a timetabling mix-up. But hats off to the
@rhulpir
students for sticking with it
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Not to self: remove slide on 'costs of ruling' from lecture posted on Moodle....
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After a 2-year break, it's back: the
@rhulpir
Magna Carta walk!!! Heading off from the dept at 10.00am
#PIRMagnaCarta2018
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Those nice people at
@ManchesterUP
are offering a 50% discount on ‘None past the post’ in the first half of May! To pre-order your copy for £8, add nopass17 @ checkout
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"Marching to the Left? Programmatic Competition and the 2017 Party Manifestos" has now been published by
@po_qu
. Available at:
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I thought about making blue pancakes - to go with strawberries and vanilla ice cream - for the coronation, but was unable to. Tonight, I made them. Shades of 'smurf fights steamroller, and loses'
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Looking forward to today's - and the first in-person -
@UKParliament
trip for
@royalholloway
@rhulpir
Parliamentary Studies Module students!
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I won't embarrass anyone by name but I was delighted to be ambushed by a cake (Victoria sponge) today. Alas: no future seminar will ever be complete without one
@rhulpir
@RHULGeography
students really are the best :-)
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Absolutely delighted that
@joshfunnell_
was runner up in the
@psa_parl
essay competition for an essay submitted for PR3103 Parliamentary Studies
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
Many congratulations Josh!
It has been a busy few weeks for the PSA Parliaments Specialist group!
See the latest (bumper) newsletter from
@PolStudiesAssoc
Parliaments at our fancy new website.
Find it here:
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The results are in on the end of year Toddler Satisfaction Survey (TSS)! We've received 100% 'strongly disagree' on all indicators...
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The
@rhulpirp
team is ready. It's not too late to donate to the
@mssociety
Can we break the £3,000 mark by the time we get to Richmond?
@ggbenedetto
@DrMikeBankole
@chrishanretty
@emcliff19
@_MichaelBacon
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A great visit from Mr Speaker to mark
@rhulpir
participation in the Parliamentary Studies module!
The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has just finished giving a talk to our students at
@rhulpir
#RHSpeaker
many thanks to the Speaker and to
@DrNJAllen
for the organization
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Think of Michael Gove and Gavin Williamson, both sacked twice - for untrustworthiness (twice) and for rule-breaking and incompetence respectively. 3/7
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Huge congratulations to
@rhulpir
& other
@RoyalHolloway
graduands who are getting their degree results!! PR1400 seems a distant memory :-)
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JRM's comment begs the question: do so many ministers?
Have to disagree. Massive thanks to all local, devolved & central gov civil servants - incredible work over the pandemic & in so many other areas of UK life
@UKCivilService
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Four possible implications spring to mind. First, being sacked may become less effective a disciplinary device. The sacked may have an incentive to cause trouble in expectation of preferment under a future PM (this may be contingent on frequent changes in the PMship). 4/7
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You know you have a fussy toddler when he refuses to try the imaginary soup you've just made...
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Many thanks to Lord Young for visiting
@rhulpir
@RoyalHolloway
to speak to Parliamentary Studies students
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Third, it could reduce the quality of govt if weak ministers (hard to measure, I know) keep returning. 6/7
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I've never had to contend with packed lecture theatres....
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"Inside the Foreign Office": our former Foreign Sec comes across as the David Brent of diplomacy...
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Apparently there are still spaces available (I can't imagine why....) for my inaugural on Monday 15th May. I'll be talking about PMs and public integrity, if anyone is interested!
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Now, being sacked seems to be much less final. Think of Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, both sacked for breaching the Ministerial Code, both later appointed/reappointed as Home Secretary. 2/7
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I hope and expect all
@RoyalHolloway
@rhulpir
meetings will come with wine and cheese in 2022
#innocentexplanations
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A number of former
@rhulpirp
students are standing as candidates today, representing all the main parties. Good luck to you all!
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Many thanks to
@olhe
, Kaat Smets and their team for organising a fantastic
#EPOP2018
They did
@rhulpir
proud!!
Kaat and I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who came to
#EPOP2018
and everyone who helped organize the conference (esp
@nickhatton87
and
@mattpolacko
who did heroics). It was great to see you all and we loved having you!
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You know you're out of touch when most of your students haven't heard of the (Grant and Phil) Mitchell brothers (in the context of Cummings and Cain)...
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So another lockdown. At least we can all take a trip to Barnard Castle. Or is that prohibited for real this time??
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