As far as political polling goes you could do far worse than keeping an eye on Business Insider. The industry rag samples double the amount of people than regular pollsters and correctly tipped an exit from the European Union in last year's election against all the odds. And following the ...
Britain has just six weeks to prepare for what could go down as one of the biggest General Elections in history, and if you take the pollsters by their word (which few of us do any more) the Tories are on hand to steamroller the opposition. The Conservatives are set to win ...
Bookmakers today shed light on an election devoid of opposition, pricing the Tories 1/7 to win an overall majority in June. With Labour significantly behind in the polls, the UK's opposition party is 14/1 to win the General Election, with "no majority" 13/2. The Conservatives are 1/10 to win the most ...
In a surprise statement outside Number 10 Downing Street Prime Minister Theresa May called for a snap General Election on June 8, going back on repeated promised not to. With Conservatives around 20 points ahead of Labour in opinion polls, many Tory figures have been urging the PM to go ...
A German Conservative candidate in next month's council elections has come under fire for comparing the SNP to the Nazis. German-born Reiner Luyken, a retired journalist, has had a running battle with SNP politicians who have branded the comparison "ridiculous and offensive". Hours after the candidate selections were published, Moray MP ...
Days after the resignation of their only MP Douglas Carswell UKIP seem to be scraping the barrel with an 18 year-old who was too young to even vote for Brexit last year. Councillor William Jones was co-opted to Cullompton Town Council at a full meeting last week. He will sit as a UKIP ...
This week Barack Obama's former press secretary perfectly summed up President Trumps's simple strategy of how to detract from the sewer-slide of scandals seeping out of the White House on a daily basis. "The bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet" said Josh Earnest, referring to Trump's claims that he ...
In the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister a sociological phenomenon dubbed the "Basildon man" came into existence to describe the archetypal Thatcher supporter that had previously been expected to vote Labour. The Basildon Man was at the heart of her political machine, denoting aspirational voters who ...
An ‘appalling’ rise in deadly super bugs E.coli and MRSA is linked to the Conservatives cutting and outsourcing cleaning contracts, according to GMB. Three thousand cleaners have been slashed from the NHS wage bill since 2011/12, new figures reveal - despite hospitals treating more than a million more patients every ...