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THE TIMES An aid to the navigation of uncharted political waters

The House of Commons

The new Parliament

An ordinary beginning to an extraordinary campaign

How the polls really got it right

A tremor that changed the political landscape

Who cares what the papers say?

And the winner is…television

It will never be the same again

Meet the Class of 2010, the new politics in person

Women failed to break through

Bad news for big spenders: money can’t buy you votes

Little joy for the smaller parties

Don’t emerge as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal

The old era

The man who detoxified the Conservative brand

At long last it’s OK to be a Tory

Path to power: how the Lib Dems made history

How Brown’s rivalry with Blair proved to be Labour’s undoing

Names of the dead were read to a silent Commons

Hail and a fond farewell to the dearly departed

The tragedy of Gordon Brown

New Labour found its reforming stride too late

‘This sucker’s going down’: diary of a financial crisis

SNP pioneers of minority rule

Northern Ireland comes back from the brink

Welsh coalition complications

All change, the gravy train has hit the buffers

The work of the House of Commons

The growing powers of the humble backbencher

New intake foots bill for the old

A few words of friendly advice for aspiring MPs

The pleasures of opposition

Life as a Member of Parliament

MPs who stood down before the election

Defeated MPs

Her Majesty’s Government The Cabinet

Departmental Ministers and Whips

General Election 2010: results by constituency

House of Commons, May 2010

MPs with majorities of less than 10 per cent

How the nation voted

Tories rediscovered the art of by-election victory

By-elections 2005-10

Manifestos

Coalition programme for government

Conservative manifesto

Liberal Democrat manifesto

Labour manifesto

Smaller parties’ manifestos

Index to candidates

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