Brexit Party to run in hundreds of seats in the general election November 1, 2019 Nigel Farage is set to launch an assault on hundreds of seats in a major threat to the Conservatives’ hopes of gaining a majority in next month’s general election. Farage is set to launch the Brexit Party’s election campaign this morning, just a day after it was rumoured the party would only run for about [...]
Coronavirus: Government plots further support for self-employed March 22, 2020 The government is exploring ways to provide additional help to self-employed workers amid concerns millions of Brits have been “excluded” from financial support during the coronavirus crisis. Housing secretary Robert Jenrick today said the government was looking at ways to overcome technical challenges relating to supporting self-employed people. “It is more complicated for the self-employed [...]
Why is linking Israel to George Floyd’s murder an antisemitic conspiracy theory? July 2, 2020 Last week, shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey tweeted public support for a newspaper interview given by the actor Maxine Peake. The article, in which Peake said that anyone who couldn’t vote for Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn had “voted Tory”, included this line: “The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s [...]
National Grid and SSE shift to overseas ownership to counter Labour nationalisation plans November 24, 2019 The backlash to Jeremy Corbyn’s sweeping nationalisation plans has begun, as two of the UK’s leading power companies said that they had shifted ownership of their British operations overseas. The Sunday Times revealed that SSE and National Grid had confirmed that they had set up offshore companies in Switzerland and Luxembourg and Hong Kong respectively [...]
ITV General Election debate: Three issues that could decide the winner November 19, 2019 Boris Johnson will go head-to-head with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tonight in the ITV General Election debate – the first of several televised clashes between the pair. The showdown will air at at 8pm on ITV and will have three key issues to watch out for. Read more: General Election: Boris Johnson accuses Jeremy Corbyn [...]
Election 2019: Boris Johnson urges voters to make UK ‘Corbyn-neutral by Christmas’ December 11, 2019 Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn ended their five-week election campaigns in east London, returning to the capital after touring much of the country. Johnson held a Donald Trump-style rally, with around 3,000 supporters in Stratford’s Copper Box stadium, where heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua took home gold during the London 2012 Olympics, where he tapped into [...]
Labour will back Number 10’s early general election bid October 29, 2019 Labour has said it will back Boris Johnson’s call for a pre-Christmas general election. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will press his MPs to support the Prime Minister’s bill today that calls for a simple majority to back a snap election on 12 December. “I have consistently said that we are ready for an election and [...]
George Freeman: We can’t afford Corbyn December 12, 2019 Today voters will decide the future of our country not just for the next five years but for generations to come. The nightmare prospect of another hung parliament on Friday 13th that can only deliver more confusion, squabbling and delay is perilously close. The outcome of this election is too close to call — a [...]
Democrats are risking a Corbynesque mistake February 6, 2020 Tuesday morning’s New York Post headline — “Duh Moines,” after the capital of Iowa, Des Moines — neatly summed up the reaction of most of the watching world to the much-hyped start of the US presidential election. A new voting app turned the first Democrat primary (where potential presidential candidates are ranked) into an utter [...]
General Election: Labour has ‘close to zero’ chance of majority, says pollster John Curtice November 14, 2019 Labour has “close to zero” chance of securing a majority this election, according to one of the country’s foremost polling experts. Sir John Curtice today said the most likely outcome was either an outright Conservative victory or a hung parliament. But he noted that could still result in a Remain-led coalition and second referendum. Read [...]