Former London mayor Boris Johnson allegedly had to delete a tweet claiming he “just voted Conservatives in the local elections” after realising no elections were being held in the capital yesterday. James Felton posted out the deleted message which had appeared on Politwoops- a website which stores all deleted tweets ...
A Conservative MP broke down in tears following heavy losses for the party in Essex. The Tories lost a comfortable majority in Chelmsford and also relinquished control of two other councils in the county. MP Vicky Ford appeared visibly frustrated following the count in Chelmsford. She told the BBC: "I ...
Standing as an independent candidate for the North West in the European Parliamentary elections hasn’t proved a walk in the park for far right Islamophobe Tommy Robinson. https://twitter.com/MarianaSteal/status/1123688766814740480 Today, turning up to another underwhelmingly attended rally in Bury, Greater Manchester, the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was ...
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 ...
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 ...
RNearly half of employees (45 per cent) feel that their manager would be able to spot if they were having problems with their mental health, research by the mental health charity reveals today. When it comes to managers, Mind’s research found that many feel they could do with more support. ...
There is a paragraph in the BBC’s impartiality code that has, to coin a phrase, become a part that is more than the sum of its whole. It reads: “We are committed to reflecting a wide range of opinion across our output as a whole and over an appropriate timeframe ...
A worrying report from the Social Mobility Commission has found that social mobility hasn’t changed since 2014. Its State of the Nation investigation concluded that inequality will remain in society unless the Government takes urgent action to change the status quo. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, pledged to tackle the ...
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 ...