Politics

The Midlands constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme was won by a margin of 30 votes after students were turned away because they weren't on the register. Yesterday news broke that admin errors could deny voters the chance to cast ballots in the marginal seat, but the students were urged to go back after the cock-up to place their vote. And it's a good job they did. The seat ended up been won by a slender 30 vote majority by Labour candidate Paul Farrelly who...

A Facebook post from May 20th claiming that if the Conservatives lose just six seats Jeremy Corbyn will become PM has come back to bite Theresa May on the arse after she lost more than five times that amount. The Tories have lost 26 seats to the Labour Party and five to the Liberal Democrats with one seat still to declare. May has decided to carry on regardless, relying on the help of the DUP to form a government. But...

Jeremy Corbyn has increased Labour's share of the vote more than any other leader in any other election since Attlee in 1945. The Labour leaders managed to increase Labour's vote share by 9.6 per cent, which is just shy of Clement Attlee's 10.4 per cent swing in 1945. Since then only Tony Blair (8.8 per cent) has come close to achieving such a significant change with his landslide election win in 1997. In the year's that preceded Corbyn Labour managed...

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election was "a blunder of historic proportions", Exeter University's Head of History has said. With one result still to declare the 2017 General Election has resulted in a hung parliament with the Conservatives falling well short of the 326 seats needed to win. May will now look to form a government with Northern Ireland's DUP, which is a disastrous outcome given that the initial remit was to significantly increase David Cameron's majority. Professor...

Early reports have suggested that the number of 18-24 year-olds voting in the General Election has jumped from 43 per cent in 2015 to 72 per cent in this year's snap election. A surge in registrations to vote was noted in the run-up to the election but it was unclear how many would turn out on the day. As it was there was a phenomenal turnaround on 2015's number, with an estimated 72 per cent of young people casting their vote...

Of all the search queries you thought you might be typing in this morning I bet "who are the DUP" was certainly not one of them. Granted it is part of the wider quandary of "what comes next", but with just hours after the first results have landed the most likely outcome of the 2017 snap election is that the Tories will band together with Northern Ireland's DUP - either in a coalition or more likely a "supply and confidence arrangement" - which...

Normally you would expect your local political club to support your party on election, day but one Conservative club has bucked the trend and appears to support a Labour victory. Christopher Kirk, 41 from Keswick was going to work this morning at a bakery, at 2.30am when he glanced into the local Conservative club window and couldn’t believe what he saw. He says: “I burst out laughing, someone had managed to get a vote Labour poster in the window. The...

An eagle-eyed shopper captured the moment ex-Prime Minister David Cameron appears to jump to the front of a queue - to buy some SOCKS. The former leader seemed to be given special treatment as he popped into the Oxford Street branch of JD Sports in London to pick up a budget multi-pack. Flanked by two bodyguards, he can be seen taking the white socks to the cash desk to pay, before realising he has the wrong size. He then returns...

More than 1.6 million people have used a new election advice website to help them decide how to vote. University of Exeter graduate Matt Morley, 23, bought the domain name GE2017.com just seven minutes after the election was called. He then created a quiz to help undecided voters choose between the political parties. The quiz has broken the previous UK record of 1.1 million users. “We’re delighted that GE2017.com has now become the largest voting advice site ever built in the UK,” said...