British politics is a complex and fast-changing mix of the traditional and the new. Many certainties about the political landscape have changed in recent years.

This definitive introduction to Britain's developing political institutions and processes helps you make sense of these changes by exploring how British politics works and its real-world impact.

Thoroughly revised to incorporate the major developments in the political landscape, this fourth edition includes:
- The challenges facing Andy Burnham as prime minister, coverage of Labour's 2024 landslide victory and the party's difficulties in power, and the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
- The dramatic increase in popular support for Reform UK and the Green Party, the revolving Conservative leadership from 2015 to 2024, and the challenge to 'two party politics'.
- The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and 'Brexit' for politics and policy.
- Coverage of international developments, including the challenges of Trump 2.0 and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
- A renewed focus on questions of gender, ethnicity, nationalism, and other forms of identity, reflecting contemporary British politics.

It is an essential text for students of British or UK politics.

Updated online resources including interactive timelines, live blog posts and content updates, Politics in Action video interviews and more are available at bloomsbury.pub/british-politics-4e.

Simon Griffiths is Reader in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Robert Leach was formerly Principal Lecturer in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University, now Leeds Beckett University, UK, where he is now a Visiting Reader, following his retirement from teaching.