UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has hit out at people “trying to interfere in our democracy” after US Vice President JD Vance waded into a national controversy by blaming “mass migration” for the ...

A major new survey of young people's attitudes and priorities has found that while young people believe in democracy over dictatorship, they think that UK democracy is in trouble. The University of ...

UK democracy is under “immense and increasing strain” because of disinformation increasingly being spread by artificial intelligence (AI), with just 3 per cent of the public able to very easily tell ...

"Dissatisfied," "frustrated" and "let down" are words summing up how most people feel about the UK's democracy today, finds an in-depth report from UCL and the UK's leading public participation ...

The results are in. This week Facebook announced it has completed its second investigation into how Russian disinformation may have influenced British democracy and the Brexit vote. As with the ...

The British government said on Thursday it set out plans to lower the voting age to 16 in what could be a landmark reform. The historic moment still requires parliamentary approval, but if passed, it ...

Rising inequality is threatening British democracy, a Nobel prize winning economist has warned. Nobel laureate and Princeton professor Angus Deaton has warned that the widening gap between rich and ...

Move for greater prominence on social media comes as ministers warn online misinformation risk becoming ‘existential for our democracy’ ...

Russian Intelligence Services have been engaging in a sustained cyber campaign aimed at interfering in UK politics and democratic processes. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, ...

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