Politics.co.uk is a news and feature website focusing on British politics. For almost a decade up until the summer of 2021, the site was edited by the political journalist

Ian Dunt Ian Dunt (born 4 February 1982) is a British author, political journalist and broadcaster. He currently writes as a columnist for the 'i'. He previously served for many years as the Editor of politics.co.uk. He was also a host on the Remainiac ...

. Dunt has since returned as

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. Adam Bienkov, the political editor at ''

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'', was previously the deputy editor of Politics.co.uk.

History

Politics.co.uk has been covering British politics for over twenty years since it was first established in 2002, and is owned by the digital publishing company Senate Media. In an interview with Politics.co.uk during the

2010 United Kingdom general election The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons. The election took place in 650 constituencies across the United Kingdom unde ...

, the then prime minister

Gordon Brown James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chance ...

appeared to support

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in that year's general election. He said: "I want everyone to vote Labour. But if people don't want a Conservative government then they must make sure they don't let the Conservatives in." In 2013,

Godfrey Bloom Godfrey William Bloom TD (born 22 November 1949) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014. He was elected for the UK Independence Party in the European elect ...

, the then

UK Independence Party The UK Independence Party (UKIP; ) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s, when it gained two members of Parliament and was the largest par ...

(UKIP) member of the

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, attracted controversy after writing an opinion article on Politics.co.uk. Shortly after his 2,000 word article, Bloom lost the UKIP whip. He had stated that women were more suited to finding "mustard in the pantry" than driving cars.

Political outlook

Politics.co.uk states that it is politically independent. In 2017, Dunt wrote the book ''Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now?''

References

{{reflist British news websites