News and Opinion

How misremembered film lines have led to an odd internet phenomena, conspiracy theories and a new way of looking at the past. Academic AARON FRENCH reports. The Mandela Effect – What if our memories were altered by someone else? Picture: Periscope Entertainment – Credit: Archant You’ve likely used the internet to help you remember something, […]

The area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant is enjoying a tourism boom in the wake of the hit TV series on the disaster. Garth Cartwright went along to join the visitors. A picture taken on June 7, 2019, shows the wreckage of a car in the ghost city of Pripyat in the Chernobyl exclusion zone […]

A political academic has named the group that he thinks holds the key to stopping Boris Johnson getting a majority – and it’s not just the youth vote. Dr Stuart Fox, who lectures in British politics at Brunel University, said the recent surge in youth voter registrations reflected in the latest MRP polling isn’t necessarily […]

Boris Johnson says the country will know by Christmas that Brexit is ‘decided’ if he wins the election with a majority on Thursday. In a final message before election day, Johnson said “enough is enough” when it came to Brexit delays. If returned to Downing Street, the Tory leader has vowed to kickstart the process […]

Young voters are expected to head to the polling stations in their droves on Thursday to cast their ballot against Brexit – and youth groups in support of a ‘final say’ referendum have been helping to ensure they do so. One of those is the campaign group For our Future’s Sake (FFS), a youth and […]

Would-be voters have been leaving polling stations before casting their vote due to long queues. A queue outside a polling station in East London as voters line up to cast their votes in the General Election. Picture: @rpate/PA Wire – Credit: PA Waits of more than half an hour have been seen across England on […]

Hundreds of university students could be denied the chance to vote in the general election because of ‘admin errors’. It follows reports of 200 invalid applications to vote in Cardiff, first revealed on Monday, related to students living in a large student accommodation building in the Welsh capital. The National Union of Students Wales said […]

There has been criticism of the BBC’s politics editor Laura Kuenssberg after she revealed information about how postal voters may have cast their vote prior to the results being revealed tomorrow. The reason broadcasters are not allowed to reveal postal votes before 10PM polling day is it influences the vote.I really have no explanation of […]

Prominent anti-Brexit campaigner Jolyon Maugham has accused the government of breaching state aid rules by gifting ‘excessive’ access to public NHS data to Amazon. He has sent a letter, seen by PA news agency, lodging a formal complaint with the EU Commission which governs the scope of public assets that governments can give away. Maugham, […]

Nigel Farage is hoping it will snow or heavy rain on election day – because he thinks it will increase his chances of winning seats. Farage said that he believes his supporters “absolutely believe in our message” – despite polls putting support for the party as low as 3% – and that they will not […]

Nobody woke up this morning expecting to tweet about the prime minister leaping into a milk fridge, but thanks to Boris Johnson’s cowardice around journalists we now have the hashtag #fridgegate with less than 24 hours before the nation goes to the polls. A senior Tory source tells me that, outside the liberal metropolitan bubble, […]

The founder of the Brexit Party Catherine Blaiklock, who was forced out of the party after posting Islamophobic comments has now backed Boris Johnson’s Conservatives. It “shows quite how far this Conservative Party has sunk”, say the Liberal Democrats. Blaiklock founded the party and registered its name before Farage took over as leader. Blaiklock went […]

Michael Gove has made an embarrassing spelling mistake in an official leaflet he made for his campaign to be re-elected in Surrey Heath. If the Conservatives can't even spell 'strong' what hope have we actually got? pic.twitter.com/4Lnaxv0TSu— Donna Wishart - What the Redhead said (@genuineplacebo) December 9, 2019 The senior cabinet minister has been mocked […]

Readers are still waiting for a real letter to step forward to transform the UK and to undo the mistakes of past political leaders. Dear politicians: You have spoken so loudly I can’t hear you. You have created untrue narratives that cloud reality. You have bent words and tried to convince us that they have […]

With the general election campaign feeling a lot like the 1987 general election this reader has a message to voters. It feels quite like 1987 at the moment, so with apologies to Neil Kinnock… if Boris Johnson wins on December 12: I warn you not to work in the NHS. I warn you not to […]

The leader of the Labour party has mocked Boris Johnson in the middle of a rally stop in Middlesbrough, telling voters he did ‘not come here to deliver milk or to hide in a fridge’. 'I've not come here to deliver milk or to hide in a fridge': Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticises Boris Johnson […]

Lib Dem voters are being urged to hold their nose to back Labour to stop Boris Johnson in a number of seats. But BEN DUNCAN-DUGGAL argues in some ways the party’s election pitch offers a better answer to liberalism than Jo Swinson’s own manifesto. I know that many Lib Dem supporters aren’t feeling particularly enchanted […]

The former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has pledged to go skinny dipping in Loch Ness if the SNP win 50 seats at the General Election. In words she may later come to eat, Davidson said conditions are “markedly different” from 2015 when the SNP took 56 seats. Davidson claimed she is making the pledge […]

Polling expert professor John Curtice has said that the general election campaign is not all over – and that the number of votes for parties supporting a People’s Vote could yet outweigh those backing pro-Brexit parties. Curtice said the 10-point lead for the Tories broadly puts the support for the party at the same level […]

After Boris Johnson and the Tory PR machine left two voters with an ‘early Christmas gift’, they made a website to help you make your own memes about the prime minister. We made a #borisactually sign generator. Visit https://t.co/5WEjwYoCc1 and let's stop the tories @OwenJones84 @jeremycorbyn @joswinson @peoplesvote_uk #brexit #VoteConservativeActually #VoteTacticallyNotTribally pic.twitter.com/9MpFrNfvzP— Matt Kennedy (@MattJDKennedy) […]

With YouGov’s most comprehensive poll of the election placing Boris Johnson barely ahead, how much should the prime minister be worried about his own seat instead of getting new Tory voters across the country? The final days of the Tory campaign have been centred around attempting to take votes from Labour strongholds in the North […]

Michael Gove has explained that the reason Boris Johnson put a reporter’s phone in his pocket when faced with a picture of a boy with flu is that the prime minister was ‘anxious to answer the question’. Gove was questioned on the moment that Boris Johnson was asked by a reporter to look at a […]

90s popstar and Doctor Who companion Billie Piper has launched a stinging attack on Boris Johnson – and urged people to vote tactically. Piper took to social media to post a photograph of herself in a t-shirt with a parody Tesco logo that said “Tories – Very little help”. Cannot get behind a man who […]

Pete Doherty has told cheering crowds at a Libertines concert that in this election, ‘don’t let it be the Tories’. The rock star made the comment after he returned for an encore for his concert in Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse, where fans had been chanting “oh, Jeremy Corbyn”. “In this twisted society we live in, […]

Boris Johnson is on the cusp of losing two of his most senior Brexit backing ministers in the general election, according to YouGov’s comprehensive MRP election prediction. The analysis suggests that four of the Conservatives’ most pro-Brexit members, who all represent Remain-backing constituencies, could be booted out. In Dominic Raab’s seat, Esher and Walton, the […]

As the campaigning comes to a close, we want to know who you think has had the best election campaign. With the polls showing no clear winner, did anyone realistically have a good campaign? Or is the fact that Boris Johnson currently not predicted to win a landslide enough to suggest the other leaders performed […]

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL says tactical voting is a chance to vote for ‘none of the above’… and to get your message heard. A few snapshots of conversations out on the campaign trail in recent days… In Wokingham… “I’m not a big Corbyn fan but I’m voting for him because only Labour can get rid of the […]

Boris Johnson and his team have been accused of staging a door-knock interview in which the prime minister, taking on the role of a milkman, spoke to a seemingly unknown voter at their home. Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers milk to Debbie Monaghan in Guiseley, Leeds, ahead of Thursday’s General Election. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire […]