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Austerity: Still taking place, still forgotten in the Westminster debate

Austerity: The issue no-one talks about is still ruining lives

It's mentioned only as an aside, but the austerity policies the Tory leadership candidates supported are still driving people into poverty.

Broken: Can the country's constitutional framework survive the chaos of the Tory leadership fight?

PM without a mandate: Tory leadership fight reveals a broken constitutional settlement

Exactly where will the new prime minister's legitimacy come from? It's not from an election, or a manifesto, or even the referendum result.

The prospect of Boris Johnson in Downing Street is making some people uneasy

Week in Review: Something terrible is about to happen and we are powerless to stop it

Boris Johnson is manifestly unfit to be prime minister, but we must simply look on in horror as it happens anyway.

Polling data shows the Brexit debate is becoming more polarised than ever

A country of purists: the polling which lays bare the death of any compromise on Brexit

New data shows a large majority of the British public now reject any Brexit compromise, and a significant proportion want to vote for parties that feel the same way.

Podcast

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - EU migrant crisis

Can we even call it a "crisis"?
The Politics.co.uk Podcast: Medical cannabis

All you need to know about the medical uses of cannabis

Opinion Former Comment

BFAWU: If David Cameron is attacking unions, we must be doing something right

Workers strike to avoid becoming a burden to the taxpayer. Why won't David Cameron support hard-working union members?
BFAWU: Is a contract and a wage really too much to ask of fast food employers?

If fast food companies can afford to pay CEOs £8.45 million, they can pay their staff a living wage.
BFAWU: Osborne's economic recovery was never intended to benefit ordinary people

Let's be absolutely clear; this recovery isn't for us and it was never intended to benefit ordinary people.
BFAWU: Yes, there is an alternative to austerity

Working people are disillusioned but successes like the Wigan strike show what is possible.
NARPO: Rewarding service?

NARPO calls for "careful consideration" over police pensions.

Insulting voters can only lead to defeat – for both the Tories and Labour

Shutting out the voters might seem like a sensible strategy, but it can only lead to one result: a slap in the face come polling day.
Miliband is now most likely to be next prime minister

For years the idea of Ed Miliband in No 10 was judged unthinkable, even laughable. But with the general election just over a fortnight away, a consensus is gradually emerging that his premiership is now the most likely outcome.

Ian Dunt

Anti-Brexit parties need a Remain alliance while there's still time

Whether the Tory candidates admit it or not, there's an election coming - and Remain is still more split than Leave.
Week in Review: Justifying attacks on women for the culture war

A grim wave of reaction suggests the culture war is now reaching dangerous new levels.
Johnson vs Hunt: The most pointless contest imaginable

Boris Johnson is now almost certain to be the next prime minister and the fight to get there is almost certain to have no intellectual content whatsoever.

Comment

100 years of the library: The service we should value like the NHS - but don't

Cuts have slashed the service down to a sad reflection of its former self, and our public debate has corroded.
Brexit party MEPs' pitiful attempts to uncover a Brussels 'gravy train'

Embarrassingly inept video shows Brexit party complain about rules which are the same, or even stricter, back in Westminster.

Analysis

Your guide to how the IFS dismantled the two parties' plans

The IFS said that Labour had got its sums wrong on tax, while the Tory public pay cap is causing difficulties
Ignore the hype. Ukip will lose to Labour in Oldham West

Nigel Farage's party are unlikely to deliver a major upset today

Feature

The crazy polling of Soft Brexit

The fate of the compromise Brexit option tells us a lot about the debate in Britain. Depending on how you count it is either the most or least popular outcome.
Gavin Williamson's demand for squaddie immunity betrays the horror of Bloody Sunday

The defence secretary is threaten to politicise the criminal justice system in a populist appeal to the right.

Sketch

PMQS verdict: Harman is right, but it doesn’t save her

The temporary Labour leader struggles and fails to press her arguments against a prime minister who trades in blithe but convincing falsehoods
PMQS verdict: Harman wrong-foots Cameron with declaration of war on Heathrow

Labour is poised to make the Heathrow debate as damaging for Cameron as humanly possible