Ahead of the Local Elections this week a fascinating piece of footage was unearthed from 1985 in which James Burke appeared to predict how politics would been played out in an internet age. In his words, we would operate on the basis that facts and truths “all depend on what ...
Despite parties backing Remain making vast gains in the local elections, with the Tories the biggest losers and Ukip losing most council seats, both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn appeared to suggest voters wanted MPs to back a Brexit deal. The Conservative Party by Friday afternoon had lost 1200 council ...
With 164 out of 248 council election results declared, the Green Party is celebrating a historic victory and vowing to “carry the Remain banner” into European Parliament elections. The party is up 95 council seats on a record total of 127 councillors so far. As lunchtime declarations were made on ...
Pro-Remain parties stormed the 2019 Local Elections yesterday with the Lib Dems and Greens significantly increasing their share of the vote as the main two parties and UKIP lost out. Labour MP David Lammy tweeted that it was an “unambiguously” clear vote for a re-think on Brexit. He said: “The message ...
Brexit-supporting parties were punished hard in yesterday's local elections and according to results in so far, the Tories are the main losers by far. Elections were held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland With results so far in from 100 of 248 council ...
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 ...
Tommy Robinson will stand as an independent candidate in the upcoming EU Elections. The outspoken public figure posted a message on his website saying he will fight against the "Islamification of Britain". He also took a swipe at Nigel Farage, whose Brexit party is odds-on favourite to win the most ...
Former shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe is returning to politics to join Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. Declaring the former UKIP man the “most successful politician since Margaret Thatcher” she told the Daily Express that the public needs to send “a very clear message” that we expect the vote to be ...
A second opinion poll this week shows Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is set to command the most MEP’s in May’s European Parliament election. Just one week after the official launch of the Brexit Party in Coventry unveiled four of its candidates including Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata and Brexit profiting fund ...