Archive: General Election 2010
Bad body language: The secret cost of Labour's coalition negotiation
The disrespectful body language of Labour's negotiating team was one of the reasons that a Lib-Lab coalition became impossible in 2010, new memoirs have revealed.
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Diabetes UK 2010 general election manifesto
Diabetes UK has published a manifesto for the 2010 General Election. The Improving Lives manifesto outlines the 10 key areas we want the next Government, whatever Party is leading it, to address.
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British Humanist Association: A Humanist Manifesto for the 2010 General Election
We want a society where there is a culture of respect for human rights. We want a government that will commit to building such a culture and protecting the Human Rights Act. We want a government that will increase human rights education and help to make human rights a tool in protecting people from oppression and discrimination.
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Call for general election supremo
A single person needs to be placed in charge of supervising general elections, the Electoral Commission's head has said.
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General elections 'need more central control'
More central coordination of general elections is the best way to avoid a repeat of the queues seen at polling stations in 2010, the chair of the Electoral Commission has said.
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Tories dominant in 2010 election spending
The Tories outspent Labour and the Liberal Democrats' combined total expenditure at the general election.
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Court strips Woolas of Saddleworth seat
Former immigration minister Phil Woolas' re-election to his Oldham East and Saddleworth seat has been declared void, a special election court has ruled.
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Analysis: Woolas' demise was hard, but not impossible, to spot
Even with the benefit of hindsight it was impossible to tell, as I travelled around Oldham East and Saddleworth with Phil Woolas and Elwyn Watkins, what lay ahead. But the clues were there.
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Court hears of Woolas 's*** or bust' strategy
Labour MP Phil Woolas ran a "dirty tricks" campaign in a bid to "make the white folk angry", an unusual election court heard yesterday.
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Court challenge to Saddleworth result begins
Shadow immigration minister Phil Woolas faces a five-day fight in court to save his Oldham East and Saddleworth seat from his Liberal Democrat challenger.
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Coalition rewrites post-election history
David Cameron has denied misleading Conservative MPs during coalition talks with the Liberal Democrats, insisting he did not tell them Labour was offering Nick Clegg's party electoral reform without a referendum.
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Review: Campaign 2010 by Nicholas Jones
David Cameron is just as obsessed with the machinations of the British tabloids and broadcasters as New Labour ever was. He's just better at it.
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Feature: Solving the 2010 election riddle
The general election results baffled us all. Now, after the dust has settled, its winners are trying to work out exactly why the electorate proved so fickle.
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General election 2010
The 2010 general election has seen voters return a hung parliament for the first time since 1974.
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General election 2010: Tories pick up Vale of Glamorgan
The Conservatives have won their number two target in Wales.
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General election 2010: Last seat goes to the Tories
The Tories easily retained the seat of Thirsk and Malton as the last result of the general election finally came in.
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General election 2010: Final constituency votes
The only constituency which did not elect an MP in the 2010 general election is doing so today.
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Feature: Election Aftermath
politics.co.uk picks up the pieces after one of the most exciting and dramatic general elections in recent history.
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Election aftermath: The media
In the first of a special week-long assessment of the general election, politics.co.uk looks at what the campaign taught us about the role of the media.
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Lib-Con: The Cabinet in full
Here's the final list of who's got a seat at the Cabinet room table.
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Coalition partners still fighting in by-election
Despite "cooperation, not confrontation" between the two governing parties, the Tory and Liberal Democrat candidates are still fighting in the delayed Thirsk and Malton election.
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Coalition government: Day one
Britain is having yet another historic political day, with the formation of the first coalition government since the Second World War.
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Coalition government as-it-happens
Catch up on all of the day's developments with politics.co.uk's live blog.
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Tory-Lib Dem agreement in full
Read the full text of the agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
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Tory activists: Campaign not good enough
Even as David Cameron is settling into Downing Street there are rumblings among his party rank and file.
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Coalition PM Cameron enters No 10
David Cameron has entered No 10 as prime minister, after a day of negotiations in which the details of a full Conservative-Lib Dem coalition were finalised.
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Gordon Brown resigns as PM
Gordon Brown has quit as prime minister, following the emergence of an expected Liberal Democrat-Conservative pact.
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