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A DUP billboard running an anti-Conservative pledge has backfired spectacularly after the party teamed up with the Tories to give them the majority they need to form a government. The advertisement features a woman giving her allegiance to Northern Ireland's DUP because she "wants an MP who answers to us ...

Of all the pictures to emerge from last night's election coverage perhaps the most poignant was one of Theresa May stood next to a black knight as she awaited her constituency results in Maidenhead. For fans of Monty Python she had become the embodiment of the knight who stands legless ...

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 ...

The British press has kept up the tradition of completely omitting their partisan veil this year with election day splashes that read more like propaganda than news coverage. In tradition with the past The Sun attacked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with the front page headline "Don't Chuck Britain in the ...

Templeton Emerging Markets shareholders make 48% in a year. Templeton Emerging Markets (TEMIT) generated a return of 47.8% on net asset value over the year to the end of March 2017. Shareholders did even better as the discount narrowed slightly leaving them with a return of 48.3%. By contrast, the ...

@BenGelblum Every time I think of Neil Kinnock’s famous eve of election speech before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide victory in the 1983 General Election it sends a shiver down my spine. Warning of the callous Thatcherism that Britain would suffer if she won, Kinnock’s  voice hoarse from campaigning uttered his most famous lines: "I ...

Four of the political parties may have a hand in shaping an entirely new immigration system on Friday. So what do they promise? More importantly, how realistic are these pledges? Immigration Solicitor Vanessa Ganguin examines how credible these political promises are.   With all kinds of accusations flying around, bold promises, u-turns, ...

By Stephen Mayne Political campaigns are about expressing the ideas, and the way in which a person/party plans to govern, aiming to buy trust in the process. They’re also about winning. The two are closely linked but come with a fair degree of tension, as 1972 political satire The Candidate so ...

This interactive map below features the climate, fracking and environmental issues in your constituency with a breakdown below of where candidates stand on these issues. With the general election upon us, these are the constituencies where candidates’ positions on fracking, energy, air pollution, airport expansion and climate change issues could be decisive if you are ...