Sir Keir Starmer has been elected leader of the Labour Party after winning an overwhelming 56.2% of first preference votes to see of the challenge of Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy. Angela Rayner has been elected deputy leader with the results of the leadership election being interpreted as “a decisive break with the Jeremy Corbyn […]
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The prime minister has given England’s controversial high speed rail link the “green signal” despite widespread concerns from environmentalists and politicians about the £106 billion HS2 project. Boris Johnson told the House of Commons he is committed to the two sections of the project that will link Birmingham with London, Manchester and Leeds, and announced […]
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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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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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Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, has today issued a strong criticism of the problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Writing in the Times, he expressed his horror at “a new poison – sanctioned from the top – [which] has taken root in the Labour Party”. His article […]
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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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The director general of the CBI has said political extremists on the right and left of British politics are causing “great harm to the economy” Dame Carolyn Fairbairn told the Confederation of British Industry’s annual conference that extremism from no-deal Tory Brexiters and pro-nationalisation Corbynites meant “we are facing a danger that could get in […]
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The NHS is “imploding” and facing a “catastrophe” that experts says risks becoming a “national emergency” following a raft of figures released this week which could end up costing Boris Johnson the general election. NHS England’s figures show the health service is performing at its worst levels in history while another report highlights worsening staff […]
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