Ben Walker (@bwalker.uk)
@BNHWalker
Co-Founder of @BritainElects. Senior Data Journalist for the @NewStatesman. Borough Councillor for Chester's city centre, West Cheshire
"And THAT boys...is how to take a penalty." (Brian Glover) Bravo, Lionesses.
"And how will you be voting Mrs Muggins?" "I'm voting for your party!"
In July 2024 leading Conservatives met for the first shadow cabinet after their election defeat. In comments later leaked to the Times on July 9th Kemi Badenoch ripped into Rishi Sunak over his D-Day gaffe and called his PPS a “buffoon”. On July 10th Badenoch called the leak…
Someone's seen the polling.
Tory Senedd member Laura Jones defects to Reform - the party's first Member of the Senedd.
Nasty. This guy isn’t harming anyone, doesn’t say anything anti-British, he’s just ignorant in a way plenty of other British people are, of whatever ethnicity. So what’s the significance of the clip? Him being black?
'What do you think are British values?' @StevenEdginton finds out from South London locals what it means to be British.
A must read for all in local government newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…
I know Liverpool central is a bit left of centre but come on
It’s really hard to poll 16-17year olds reliably. There’s going to be a huge amount of polls saying different things about how they’d vote. Even more important to see if patterns emerge across polls and consider carefully who is doing the work.
Britons built the 19th century Britons will build the 22nd
A stunning and shameful PMQs. Parliament has been denied its right to scrutinise the government for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction. Huge amounts of public money has been spent in secret. 100,000 Afghans put in danger. Did any backbench MP get up…
I am loath to criticise my former BBC colleagues and I’m aware they weren’t in on the story. But the idea of a TV presenter losing his job being the top story on the website as opposed to Parliament being kept in the dark for two years about the Afghan data leak is risible.
Oh no
The need for the proposed Abingdon mega-reservoir is far from proven, and the environmental impacts of such a project don't seem to have been accounted for. This project must be halted, immediately.
If you ever want to shut someone up just sit them down, open up Rightmove and Spareroom and watch the light drain out their eyes as you demonstrate how totally unaffordable housing is. Also, lettings agents, how do you sleep at night?
Brilliant use of our Seven Segments from our Shattered Britain report from @BNHWalker to explain growth in Reform support beyond the normal left-right spectrum. newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…