Politics

Two Conservative candidates in the European elections have said they will not be voting for their own party, according to Sky News correspondent Lewis Goodall. Conservative sources have revealed candidates on one of the party’s regional lists are in fact voting for the Brexit party in the elections. Polling for Nigel Farage’s new party has surged again today, with latest indications suggesting they could take up to 30 per cent of the vote, up two points. The next closest rival...

Nigel Farage and his Brexit Party are well-fancied by bookmakers to secure their first seat in the House of Commons by winning the Peterborough by-election. Set to take place in the coming weeks after support for a petition ousted sitting MP Fiona Onasanya, Betway rates the Brexit Party as 13/8 second-favourites to triumph in the Leave-voting city. Peterborough voted overwhelmingly to leave in the EU referendum, returning 60.9 per cent in favour of exiting the European Union against 39.1 per...

The public purse will take a £50m hit after the DoT (Department of Transport) ended its no-deal Brexit ferry contracts. Chris Grayling’s department had agreed £108m contracts with three ferry organisations, to assist with moving goods in the event of a no-deal Brexit. He has decided to terminate the agreements after the UK's departure date was moved to the end of October. Even though the deals were cancelled it is likely to cost around £50m to honour part of the...

Theresa May dodged almost 75 per cent of questions in broadcast interviews during the 2017 General Election campaign, researchers have claimed. May scooped the mantle for the most evasive Tory leader in decades after a team from the University of York found she answered just 27 per cent of questions in four broadcast interviews. This was similar to the figure from two interviews Mrs May conducted just after she became prime minister in 2016. By contrast, her predecessor David Cameron...

Theresa May will become the first Conservative leader in the party's history to face a grassroots vote to oust her after rank and file activists forced an Emergency General Meeting to discuss the party’s leadership. The Prime Minister is set to be hauled in front of a meeting of 800 constituency chairmen and senior activists in June, who will decide whether to demand her resignation for failing to deliver Brexit. Although the vote will not be binding, losing it would...

President Trump has embarked on the 2020 election campaign, gleefully deflecting attention from any further investigations of his affairs by going on the offence 'bigly'. In a rally in Wisconsin this weekend he whipped up his crowd of MAGA hat wearing followers by offending just about everyone from the “sick” news media to “scum” FBI investigators. In a rambling rant that was demented even by his standards, he turned to a myth he’s peddled before – that Democrats are “aggressively...

Donald Trump is expected to have dinner with Boris Johnson following revelations that his official State Banquet is expected to be snubbed by Jeremy Corbyn and other leading politicians. According to the Sunday Times the US President is eager to meet the former Foreign Secretary, and could even spend some time with Nigel Farage during his visit. But he wont get the opportunity to meet the Leader of the Opposition after Corbyn turned down an invitation to meet with the...

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Britain appears to have triggered a “domino defect” following Brexit as support for the EU is bolstered among member countries. Contrary to initial concerns that Britain’s divorce could lead to other countries reevaluating their membership in the union, there is a strong belief (68 per cent) that EU countries overall have benefited from being part of the EU - equalling the highest level recorded since 1983. The latest polling by Parliament, conducted in February and March, says that despite the...