Voters are finally able to cast their ballots following the most extraordinary general election campaign in history with polling stations open – and reporting restrictions in place. It is the UK’s third general election in under five years and more than 3000 candidates are fighting for 650 seats in the first December poll since 1923. […]
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Labour’s shadow health secretary has tried to brush off his highly damaging comments about Jeremy Corbyn as “banter” and “joshing around” with someone he thought was his “mate”. The Tory supporting Guido Fawkes website published the leaked recording of a private conversation between Jonathan Ashworth and his long time friend Greig Baker – a Conservative party […]
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Politicians are targeting the ‘undecideds’ in the final three days of campaigning before Thursday’s general election and despite the Tory poll lead everything is still to play for. Political parties will be blitzing voters in a frantic final push to win their support with polling firm YouGov stating that 13% of the population have yet […]
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Jeremy Corbyn failed to land a knock-out blow on Boris Johnson in the final head-to-head leaders debate of the general election campaign. Conservatives will be delighted their leader emerged unscathed from the debate while Labour supporters may be left lamenting a lost opportunity to decisively swing the campaign in their favour. Voters will make their […]
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Boris Johnson blamed political “cowardice” for keeping the NHS free for all but the “genuinely sick” and “elderly” and argued that “if people have to pay” for NHS services, “they will value them more.” In a column for the Spectator magazine in 1995, unearthed by Business Insider, Johnson wrote that charging patients would prevent the […]
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Donald Trump arrives in London tonight (Monday) and senior Tories are alarmed the visit could turn into “a train wreck” for Boris Johnson with just ten days left before the general election. The US president will be attending the NATO Conference but Conservatives are concerned Trump could become “the most dangerous weapon in the armoury” […]
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Boris Johnson’s own words make him “a racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, liar” who is “unfit to hold the office of Prime Minister”, according to opponents who have seized on newly unearthed comments made by the PM when he wrote for The Spectator magazine. Johnson has also been slammed as a “bottler” given increasing speculation that […]
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Boris Johnson’s key election pledge to introduce 50,000 new nurses to tackle the NHS staffing crisis has been slammed by opponents as “frankly deceitful”. The Prime Minister announced the policy at the launch of the Conservative party’s general election manifesto in Telford where he promised to “release the lion from its cage” and “forge a […]
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The leaders of Plaid Cymru and the Brexit Party have urged voters to back their policies with calls for “revolution” in the UK. Nigel Farage called for a “much-needed political revolution” while Plaid’s Adam Price appealed to Welsh voters by promising a £20 billion “green jobs revolution.” The Plaid Cymru leader launched the party’s manifesto […]
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Voters have been promised “the most radical and ambitious plan to transform our country in decades” by Jeremy Corbyn who unveiled Labour’s manifesto today – exactly three weeks before December 12’s general election. The Labour leader pledged “investment on a scale you have never seen before” whilst laying out his party’s plans for government in […]
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