Labour would never recover from a Faustian pact with the SNP April 21, 2015 As the opinion polls blow hot and cold for both the Labour and Conservative leaders, so Ed Miliband and David Cameron are likely to broker a deal with minor parties to form a government. No one I know believes an outright victory from an overall majority is on the cards. For the Conservatives, the choices [...]
“Toxic” General Election to hit pound hard: Experts predict sterling will slump in value – but traders can profit April 21, 2015 Election uncertainty has begun to take its toll on sterling. After the leaders’ debate last week – which appeared to make the prospect of a coalition government less likely – the pound weakened. Since the start of the year, the pound has fallen 4.4 per cent versus the dollar, and now some strategists are predicting [...]
General Election 2015: Bookie claims Ed Miliband will (still) be in Number 10 when Hillary Clinton becomes US President April 21, 2015 This bookie is offering odds of 1/1 for Hillary Clinton to be US President. Not only that, Betway definitely expects Ed Miliband to be in 10 Downing Street when she is inaugurated, offering 3/1 odds that he'll be Prime Minister when she's sworn in on January 20, 2017 – despite fears that a hung parliament [...]
General Election 2015: Paddy Ashdown borrows description of eurosceptics from John Major and savages Tory right April 21, 2015 Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown has given a frosty reception to John Major's warning of the perils of a Labour-SNP deal after the General Election. Ashdown couldn't resist revisiting Major's famous line referring to right-wing eurosceptics in his cabinet as "bastards". In an interview with the BBC, he warned Major not to play into [...]
Did we just make voter history? This chart suggests more people applied to vote yesterday than in recent memory April 21, 2015 Could yesterday turn out to be the biggest day for UK voter applications in recent history? Certainly it was the biggest day for this General Election. Around 485, 000 people applied for registration on April 20 – the deadline for submissions ahead of May 7. Of that, 469,000 came from online applicants, while 16,000 [...]
John Major warns Scottish National Party would threaten Labour government with “political blackmail” April 21, 2015 Former Prime Minister John Major has warned that a Labour-SNP deal after the General Election would be a "recipe for mayhem." The last Conservative to lead a majority Tory government will deliver a speech in the Midlands on Tuesday spelling out the dangers to the country of an Ed Miliband government propped up by the [...]
David Cameron: Labour-SNP is a match made in hell April 20, 2015 A Labour-SNP alliance would be “a match made in hell” for the UK economy, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday. In a speech at a train factory in Crewe, Cameron said Labour leader Ed Miliband would bring the economy “to a grinding halt” if he did a deal with Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon. “Make [...]
General Election 2015: AA CFO Martin Clarke wants honesty on NHS spending and an end to non-dom tax breaks April 20, 2015 ELECTION COUNTDOWN: 16 DAYS TO GO Every day until the final week of the election campaign, we ask a business leader to say what policies would entice them to vote for a particular party. MARTIN CLARKE: CFO, AA ■ Had the courage to admit that throwing money at the NHS is not [...]
British Chambers of Commerce blasts major political parties for irresponsible election campaigning April 20, 2015 A leading business group has today accused the largest political parties of acting irresponsibly in the run-up to the General Election. In an open letter sent to the leaders of the main parties, British Chambers of Commerce Director General John Longworth said politicians are abandoning long-term interests in favour of short-term political point-scoring. “On the [...]
Chuka Umunna says corporate boardrooms need more diversity April 20, 2015 Chuka Umunna would aim for Britain’s boardrooms to have at least 14 per cent BME members if Labour win the General Election, “We have got to go further and look at not just gender diversity but ethnic diversity in British business leadership,” the shadow business secretary told the Evening Standard yesterday. Over half of the UK’s [...]