Tuesday , April 30 2024

Calum Paton

Calum Paton is a political commentator with Young Voices UK. Calum is co-author of 2020 As It Happened and a history and politics graduate from the University of Warwick. He is currently studying law in London and is the managing director of political education non-profit, The Speaker. He has previously written for City AM, 1828, Comment Central and The London Financial.

Tories should call a 2023 general election

Three years after his defeat to Boris Johnson in the Conservative Party leadership election, Jeremy Hunt has finally become Prime Minister – or at least, he is now running the country. Liz Truss’ credibility has been so violently shredded that she no longer holds authority within her own government. Sacking …

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Proportional Representation could empower a British Meloni

Our politics is in crisis and has been for some time. From last year’s Partygate to Truss and Kwarteng’s mini-budget calamity just last month, the nation’s woes seem to stem from a democratic deficit at the heart of the United Kingdom’s electoral system. The crisis began with the 2016 Brexit …

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