politics

When discussing the Britain left behind post-referendum, there has been a liberal use of the word “elites”. It’s used to describe the people that make up higher education, think-tanks, policy groups, the media – those who supposedly shape society. Michael Gove’s “The British people have had enough of experts”...

50.84% of Nottingham residents voted to leave the European Union yesterday in the EU referendum, in line with a 51.9% majority to leave throughout the rest of the country. 120,791 Nottingham residents turned out to vote, representing 61.82% of the 195,394 electorate. There were 130 spoilt ballot papers. 59,318 voters in Nottingham...

A year and a half ago, Ed Miliband was a household name, and the ‘Milibabes’ were in full swing; sharing photos of the then-Labour leader struggling to eat sandwiches on social media, flocking out in their dozens to take selfies with the great man, and stirring up a whole...

Chair of the ‘Labour In for Britain’ campaign, Alan Johnson MP, held a question and answer session today on University Park Campus to address the EU referendum. The hour-long event was organised by the University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union (SU) and Nottingham Students for Europe and was attended by...

After his question and answer session on the EU Referendum today on University Park campus, Impact caught up with Alan Johnson to talk about why students should vote. Impact: From a student perspective, obviously the University of Nottingham prides itself on being an international university – how do you believe that leaving the...

The University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union will hold a Citizens’ Assembly on 3rd May 2016 between 7pm and 9m at Trent Vineyard Church in Lenton, two days prior to the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections. The event has been organised in collaboration with Nottingham Citizens, an alliance of churches,...

A quick look at various University of Nottingham (UoN) Facebook pages will tell you that 53 students are part of the University’s Liberal Youth, 271 are members or supporters of Labour, and the Tories have a whopping 449 members on their Facebook page. But everybody knows that Facebook pages...