While deliverism is no guarantee of brighter electoral prospects for Labour, failure to oversee improved levels of trust in politics is a near-certain recipe for defeat.

Such a radical rethink in how the State handles our personal data raises some significant concerns which have yet to be addressed.

If you want to see what happens when politics gets stuck in the past, look no further than France.

President Trump kickstarted a gerrymandering war by instructing Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional districts and Democrat Gavin Newsom responding with retaliatory redistricting in California.

It’s official - the Government has decided that it will introduce a Mandatory Digital ID scheme in the UK.

The President has started a gerrymandering war ahead of next year’s crucial mid-term elections.

We’ve been here before. In 1969, the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18, but its introduction was opposed by many, in the same way that votes for 16-year-olds are being opposed today.

On 16th July 2025, 4 Labour MPs were suspended from the party following “repeated breaches of parliamentary discipline”.

Shortly after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, an official working for the Ministry of Defence accidentally leaked the details of 18,700 Afghans who had applied to move to the UK.

The government’s new elections strategy is a welcome step in the right direction – modernisation that’s long overdue. Not the full answer, but progress.

Nothing sums up how broken our political system is quite like the House of Lords.

It is well understood that the political legitimacy of democratic governments depends partly on levels of participation measured by levels of voter turnout at elections, but not entirely.

Protests have always played a vital role in democracy and have led to monumental change in the UK and abroad. Whether it be the Chartist marches, women’s suffrage protests or fox-hunting protests.

A choice for the Prime Minister. YouGov has published new projections on how voters would cast their support if a General Election was held tomorrow and it shows a dramatic shift. 

Keir Starmer declared shortly after winning the general election that ‘the fight for trust is the battle that defines our political era’.

This month, Unlock Democracy hosted a lively and insightful webinar exploring the future of the House of Lords.

"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude."

'More than a decade of central government-imposed austerity on local councils looks set to continue.'

In most modern democracies, a single document lays out what those in power can and cannot do. This document is called a constitution. However, in the UK, we don’t have one!

As an American intern at Unlock Democracy, I have been exploring how the UK’s democratic system works and how it compares to what I know from home.