The Conservatives would have a 72 seat majority in the House of Commons if an election were called today, according to the latest polling data. As the Labour rift continues to divide the party and the Tories consolidate their leadership, Labour would be expected to loose 34 seats in the ...
The Green Party has joined Labour and the Liberals to fight the government’s new plans to re-introduce the grammar school system in the UK. New PM May is assumed to be hoping to scrap the ban on establishing new grammar schools in England; she hopes it will actually help to ...
There have been some critics who have said that the Labour leader has massive core support, but few polices, well this afternoon he plans to change that. Today Corbyn is expected to reveal a number of pledges that he hopes will change the face of Britain. A major part of ...
Labour politician and MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion has asked Jeremy Corbyn for her job back after resigning at the end of June. Champion was part of the Labour coup which failed to overturn the leader at the end of June, and she now appears to have gone back cap in hand to ...
When he called Mexicans rapists, the Hitler comparisons were hyperbolic. When he said he'd ban Muslim immigrants, 'bigot' was closer the mark. When the wall got ten feet higher, he was just a nativist. But Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican national convention pushed him beyond typical right-wing populism. ...
By Bill E. Lytton We are entering a period of unprecedented, but entirely predictable, political and economic volatility. The next major test for politicians and campaigners in post-Brexit Britain is how to handle promises they made repeatedly throughout the referendum. Already, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove - as seen in their ...
By Sarah Townsend So it turns out I don't know the country I live in. On the 23rd of June I thought that I lived in a moderate democracy where people benefitted from their ability to read and hear fact-based and impartial information afforded to us by to our right ...
While everyone else has been busy mudslinging, Wikipedia has produced a very balanced list of everyone who has made an endorsement during this EU referendum: Endorsements in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 Here are some highlights... BREMAIN BREXIT International Politicians President of the USA Prime Minister of Canada Prime ...
Fully 71 percent of the youngest (18-24 year olds) British voters plan to cast ballots for the country to Remain in the European Union in the upcoming referendum, compared with just 38 percent of those aged 65 and up, according to a new UK survey by SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading ...