Deliverance Day: Meet Starmer’s Mr Fixer-in-Chief
Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM, has released the first tranche of the Mandelson Files to the Commons. In an exclusive, he tells The Mace that his
Westminster Index 2026: Edgbaston Labour MP Preet Gill reveals she's no fan of the Assisted Dying Bill but loves Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Her musical tastes range from Indian to jazz to hip hop.
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Introducing The Mace’s guide to the top 100 political strategists working in UK public affairs in 2026. Peer-reviewed by industry experts, we reveal the leading agency professionals advocating
Heads Up – Talking Strategy with Headland’s Toby Pellew
Under managing director Toby Pellew, Headland has become one of the UK’s leading public affairs agencies. He reveals what it takes to get to the top in the
Scott Colvin on a life in public affairs
Scott Colvin, Group Director of Public Affairs at Aviva, on why business is taking public affairs seriously and why he turned down a top job at No 10
The end of an era: The decline and fall of the Tory Party
Former MP Mark Field – author of tell-all memoir The End of an Era – reflects on where it all went wrong for his party
Scathing criticism
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Telling a human tale
From self-lacerating memoir to by-election madness and a Labour Together takedown, The Mace’s literary editor Christopher Silvester rounds up the latest political books.
Frankly: Nicola Sturgeon
From self-lacerating memoir to by-election madness and a Labour Together takedown, The Mace’s literary editor Christopher Silvester rounds up the latest political books
Zack to the future
What will the Greens’ new eco-populist leader Zack Polanski – who now heads Britain’s third-largest political party – do for his next trick?
