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...changes in the home. Presenter Laurie Taylor took a number of academics, including Open University sociologists Rachel Thompson and Jacqui Gabb, into diverse homes around the country. They spoke to an extended family, a person who lived alone, and a nuclear family. I reflected, at the time, on some of the implications of these recent societal shifts for our thinking about...

...changed hands between the parties in 2017. That said, the numbers of marginal seats increased in 2017. There are now 11 “hyper-marginal” seats, which were won with majorities of fewer than 100 votes. The Conservatives could in fact have won an overall majority if they had gained a further 533 votes in the nine most marginal seats, such are the narrow margins that...