21 UK stocks in danger from a Labour election win November 15, 2019 The Labour party today announced it will nationalise parts of BT if it wins power in December’s General Election. The party would nationalise the telecoms giant’s Openreach fibre rollout arm in a bid to create a UK-wide network owned by the government. Read more: BT chief executive warns Labour’s part-nationalisation would cost £100bn Shadow chancellor [...]
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s British broadband speech in full November 15, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has laid out plans to provide free full fibre broadband to every UK household and part-nationalise BT this morning. Labour said that the policy, the cost of which was estimated at £20bn, would be funded by taxing multinational tech giants. The policy announcement sent BT’s share price down over two per cent this [...]
General Election 2019: Priti Patel hammers Labour over immigration as party splits on free movement November 14, 2019 Home secretary Priti Patel has said immigration would be cut “overall” under a Conservative government – and raised alarm bells over Labour’s shifting position on freedom of movement. Patel said plans to bring in an Australian-style points based immigration system for EU and non-EU migrants would reduce the numbers coming to the UK. The home secretary [...]
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 [...]
General Election: Film star Eddie Marsan calls Jeremy Corbyn ‘either an antisemite or ignorant’ November 14, 2019 Happy-Go-Lucky actor Eddie Marsan has attacked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as “either an antisemite, or ignorant” at a Liberal Democrats event today. The actor, who has campaigned against anti-Jewish racism, told supporters and journalists that despite voting for Labour since the 1980s he would back the Lib Dems in 2019. Read more: Nigel Farage’s Brexit [...]
General Election 2019: Labour pledges to close gender pay gap by 2030 November 13, 2019 Labour will today pledge to close the gender pay gap by 2030, as part of its ongoing commitment to women in the workplace. Shadow employment rights secretary Laura Pidcock and shadow women and equalities secretary Dawn Butler will use Thursday’s Equal Pay Day – the day when women effectively stop getting paid compared to their [...]
Former Labour spinner Alastair Campbell to campaign for ex-Tory minister Gauke November 13, 2019 Labour’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has said he will campaign for ex-Tory minister David Gauke. Gauke, the former justice secretary, this morning said he was standing as an independent in his constituency of South West Hertfordshire. He told the BBC he was hoping to deprive the Tories of the seat, warning a majority would [...]
Lib Dems’ Guy Kiddey tells voters to back Labour rival after Tim Walker replaced in Canterbury November 13, 2019 The Liberal Democrats are fighting off criticism from their own members over the party’s “aggressive” positioning against Remain rivals. The party has come under fire for plowing ahead with plans to replace Canterbury candidate Tim Walker. He stood down last night over fears his position would jeopardise Labour incumbent Rosie Duffield’s chance of winning the [...]
General Election 2019: Labour split over four-day week plans for NHS November 13, 2019 Labour has come under pressure after splits emerged in the party’s position over whether the NHS would be subject to its four-day-week pledge. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth had rubbished his opponent’s claim that a policy of reducing the working week would apply to the NHS and that doctors and nurses would be “putting their [...]
Boris Johnson’s election pledge: Let’s end Brexit groundhog day November 13, 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to call on voters to end the “groundhoggery” of Brexit in his first major General Election speech. The Prime Minister will say the UK cannot “squander” more time on deciding on the manner of its departure from the EU, and ask the public to let him “get Brexity done”. [...]