One aspect of May’s federal election has been strangely overlooked: Labor’s win follows a pattern among the main centre-left parties in Europe and comparable countries. Traditional social democratic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Keir Starmer bucks the trend as a centre-Left leader - Hannah McKay/Reuters In France, Emmanuel Macron is on the verge of ...

Opposition Social Democrats ahead after 91% of votes counted Some 52.1% of eligible voters cast a ballot Campaign dominated by concerns over living costs National security also a major issue ...

The ALP’s defeat at the 2019 federal election was a surprise. Shorten’s Labor fell short, against both wider commentariat predictions and unrepresentative polls. Yet, if we take a step back, the ...

The centre-left D66 party is on course to be the biggest party in the next Dutch parliament, ahead of the far-right Freedom Party, according to exit polls. The result, if confirmed, would be a huge ...

Centre-left candidate António José Seguro is poised to comfortably beat his far-right rival to the Portuguese presidency after a run-off vote. With 95% of votes counted, Seguro has won 66%, with the ...

The value of left-of-centre ideas, such as socialism, social democracy, secularism, economic egalitarianism, gender-equality, freedom of speech, equal opportunity, right to health and education and so ...