General Election 2019: Johnson says it is ‘best’ Trump does not interfere in the campaign during visit to London November 29, 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it would be “best” if Donald Trump does not get involved in the UK’s general election when he visits London next week. Trump, who is coming to the UK for a NATO summit, previously voiced his opinions on the election campaign. In October he said Jeremy Corbyn would be [...]
General Election: New polling shows anything from huge Conservative majority to a hung parliament December 8, 2019 Four different polls released this weekend all show Boris Johnson’s Conservative party leading Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party – but the chance of a hung parliament remains on a knife-edge. The polls give the Tories leads between eight and 15 points, just days out from the 12 December General Election. Even if the Conservatives lead Labour [...]
‘It can’t get any worse’: What City workers think of another General Election October 29, 2019 It’s that time again: Britain is on course for another General Election, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced he was ready to fight the “most radical election ever”. But Brits have endured more than three years of uncertainty since the EU referendum, and few groups of workers have felt the effects of it more sharply [...]
Independent MP John Woodcock to quit at December election November 4, 2019 Independent member of parliament John Woodcock has revealed he will step down as an MP in December’s election. Woodcock said he plans to quit politics after his partner, Spectator assistant editor and author Isabel Hardman, became pregnant. The MP , who was a member of the Labour party until he quit in the summer of [...]
US President Donald Trump to visit UK ahead of General Election November 15, 2019 US President Donald Trump will make a visit to the UK ahead of the General Election next month. Trump will visit from Monday, 2 December to Wednesday, 4 December for a Nato meeting, and will attend a reception hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Read more: Trump slams Sadiq Khan during visit The president, [...]
PMQs review: We’re in for a dismal ordeal for the foreseeable future January 9, 2020 The first Prime Minister’s Questions of the decade yesterday afternoon was the return of the unedifying spectacle of two men, neither of whom wanted to be there, both giving a performance so bad it made the new film Cats look watchable. Jeremy Corbyn, a blunt tool at the best of times, gave the newly emboldened [...]
Boris Johnson thanks north of England for ‘breaking voting habits of generations’ December 14, 2019 Boris Johnson has thanked the north of England for “breaking the voting habits of generations” during a visit to Sedgefield today. The Prime Minister visited the former seat of Tony Blair after celebrating the Conservative’s 80-seat majority – the party’s largest since 1987. It was the first time the Country Durham constituency has been held [...]
PMQs: Corbyn hammers Johnson over NHS as election campaign looms October 30, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn kick-started his 2019 election campaign this afternoon, hammering the Prime Minister over the NHS in all of his questions during PMQs. The Labour leader claimed Boris Johnson’s “sell-out” Brexit deal would see NHS money “going into private profit”. He argued a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, broadcast this week, showed the health service had [...]
Labour’s ‘self-destructive’ manifesto will drive billions away from UK, business groups warn November 21, 2019 Labour’s “self-destructive” manifesto will drive billions out of the UK, leaving everyone in the country poorer, business groups, lawyers and think tanks have warned. Jeremy Corbyn unveiled his “radical” vision for how a Labour government would tackle inequalities in Birmingham earlier today. Among the changes revealed in the manifesto in order to fund £83bn of [...]
A second referendum would come at a cost November 27, 2019 Brexit is testing traditional party loyalties almost to destruction. According to pollster Peter Kellner, the Tories could grab more than 50 seats from Labour, largely in areas where it’s been assumed that people simply don’t vote Tory. At the other end of the debate, Brexit is leading people into uncomfortable compromises. People who never thought [...]