Politics

The nine people are also thought to have been named in a secret intelligence report on the threats posed to UK democracy which was suppressed last week by Downing Street.

There are signs that a 2017-style squeeze is taking shape with some Labour voters coming home and a relative lack of Brexit news looks like it’s helping Labour Leavers return to the fold.

Jo Swinson said she has “learnt from mistakes” from her time in government

Natalie Elphicke said she was ‘delighted’ to have been adopted as the Conservative candidate for Dover and Deal.

It comes after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Conservatives would be conducting a ‘general investigation into prejudice’.

Launching the party’s General Election campaign, the SNP First Minister warned Boris Johnson has “no right to block the democratic wishes of the people of Scotland”.

At SNP’s General Election campaign launch, the First Minister said supporting a minority Labour government in a hung parliament at Westminster could work.

Ms Butler said that Labour’s proposed workplace reforms are ‘the common sense approach to the modern way of life’.

Johnson was watched sipping whisky during a distillery visit in Scotland on Thursday, casting doubt on his commitment to the alcohol ban.