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Labour and Lib Dem candidates with a minimal vote share in key marginal seats are being urged to endorse the candidate for the other party who, in their seat, are most likely to defeat Boris Johnson’s Brexit candidates. Femi Oluwole, the co-founder of Our Future, Our Choice (OFOC) launched a petition calling for the Liberal […]

Former Conservative prime minister SIR JOHN MAJOR says now is not the time for tribalism at this election. In a few days’ time, we will be choosing our next government and our next parliament. The choice of MPs we make will determine our future. At elections, political tribes join together to promote their own policies, […]

Former Tory activist BARNABY TOWNS speaks for many when he describes the revolution that has taken place in British politics – and among voters – since the referendum and why he will be voting Lib Dem. I joined the Conservative Party aged 15, campaigning for it at general and local elections before I was old […]

A Conservative candidate has come under fire after suggesting the increase in food bank usage over the last nine years is because ‘they give stuff away’. Brendan Clarke-Smith, the Tory candidate for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, said: “If you are going to say to somebody that you are going to refer them on [to a food […]

Hugh Grant has noticed a highly ironic omission in the election campaign advert put out by the Conservatives that not only spoofs a film he starred in but which itself is ripped off a Remainer Labour MP. "One of the cards... Boris Johnson didn't hold up was the one saying "Because at Christmas you tell […]

Nigel Farage has been challenged on whether he would accept a peerage – as allegedly offered to him by the Tories in return for standing down Brexit Party candidates. Appearing on a special edition of BBC Question Time, Farage claimed that he wanted to scrap the House of Lords because he did not believe in […]

The Daily Mirror has published a second devastating photo showing the intolerable strain Tory cuts have placed upon the NHS in a follow up to yesterday’s news of a sick boy sleeping on the floor which shamed the Tories. It is the third day in a row in which the newspaper has shaken the Conservative […]

In the latest campaign video for the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn has read out critical tweets about him in a format popularised by the US late-night chat host Jimmy Kimmel. In the video entitled “Mean Tweets with Jeremy Corbyn”, the Labour leader sits by a fireplace and read out critical tweets about him and his […]

Brexit is taking more £350 million a week from public services – the same figure that Brexiteers claimed would be spent on the NHS instead if a Brexit vote happened. The Lib Dems have based the figure on the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ (IFS) reporting, which appears to show Brexit is costing the government between […]

The Conservative Party has been accused of ‘bare-faced lying’ after members of the party leaked false claims to the media that an adviser to Matt Hancock was punched while on a visit to hospital. Have video from Hancock leaving Leeds General just come through so you can see for yourself - doesn't look like punch […]

Boris Johnson is desperately attempting to rally new Tory supporters after coming under fire in the last few days of the election campaign. With two days to polling day, the prime minister will warn there is a “clear and present” danger of another hung parliament unless voters back Tories on Thursday. He had come under […]

The Brexit Party has expelled a local councillor and dismissed a part-time official after they were filmed by undercover reporters making racist comments. The two activists were filmed by Channel 4 News during campaigning in Hartlepool where party chairman Richard Tice is standing in the General Election. Councillor David Mincher complained Muslims were “outbreeding us” […]

The DUP leader ‘shouldn’t have championed Brexit’ if she had been truly concerned about the possibility of customs checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, said Sinn Fein’s president today. Mary Lou McDonald was speaking in reaction to the DUP’s Arlene Foster, who expressed her disappointment at Boris Johnson having broken his word to her […]

Brexit Party activists supporting party chair Richard Tice have been reportedly caught making racist and Islamophobic comments in the midst of the general election campaign for Hartlepool. An undercover Channel 4 News investigation claims to have exposed shocking comments such as one councillor, David Mincher, saying he once tried to bury a pig’s head under […]

The chair of a local Conservative association has been asked to stand down by her party after reports emerged that she had told a Muslim woman her headscarf was ‘offensive’. Former chair of the Tories’ Chipping Barnet wing, Fiona Bulmer, is said to have approached Sidrah Mohammed outside Asda in Southgate as part of general […]

While young people have registered to vote in their millions, the demographic are often guilty of blind, ‘take no prisoners’ politics. LUCY HOLLAND writes how this has to go for tactical voting to win. Young people have registered in record-breaking numbers for this general election, which is the most significant rise in numbers we’ve seen […]

Jo Swinson has been asked whether her refusal to work with Jeremy Corbyn is endangering the Remain cause in the service of her career. The Liberal Democrat leader said that she was open to working with people from all parties if it meant stopping Brexit, but reiterated her refusal to support putting Corbyn in power […]

An amazing group of anti-Tory activist boat owners are set on unseating the prime minister by sailing away to new shores in order to make the most of some bizarre tactical voting rights. If you live on a houseboat, you technically have no fixed address and can register to vote anywhere you have moored up, […]

SIOBHAN BENITA, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for London and the party’s candidate for mayor, encourages people to back the Lib Dems in the capital. Siobhan Benita, the Lib Dems’ spokesperson for London. Photograph: Lib Dems. – Credit: Archant It’s crunch time. After more than three years of persuading, petitioning and protesting, of parliamentary proceedings, prorogations and […]

CALLUM TENNANT campaigned to Leave in 2016 – but now backs remaining in the EU. In this election he’s fighting for Labour, but recognises tactical voting might be needed in this election, because of the imperfection of the voting system. For some, voting is a duty, for others, a chore. Come December 12th, for many […]

Another poll has predicted that the UK is heading towards a hung parliament as Conservative growth has halted while Labour continue to make gains. An opinion poll by ICM for Reuters has placed Labour within six points of the Conservative Party, as Jeremy Corbyn’s party looks set to receive 36% of the vote. Over the […]

The prime minister was barracked by a member of the public while over his party’s fake news tactics during a campaign stop at a factory in Grimsby. WATCH: Page Hood just challenged Boris Johnson on 'fake' websites the Conservatives set up to discredit Labour's manifesto. He told her he didn't know anything about it and […]

Boris Johnson has been confronted with a picture of a little boy forced to sleep on a hospital floor – but was so keen not to face up to the image of the child he slipped the reporter’s phone into his pocket. The prime minister admitted he had not seen the now-infamous picture of four-year-old […]

A row has erupted over whether a Channel 4 News presenter was right to give the Conservative Party a voice in a debate which they didn’t attend. Representatives from five of the UK’s main political parties attended Channel 4’s Britain Decides: Everything But Brexit Debate, but the Tories were noticeably absent. In an attempt to […]

Boris Johnson was unable to explain the basis for alarming claims by Priti Patel that a Labour government would lead to 52 more murders a year, prompting his interviewer to say: ‘She made them up, hasn’t she?’ Speaking on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show, Johnson was reminded of his home secretary’s claim in the Daily Telegraph […]

The prime minister is facing fresh accusations of ‘revolting, xenophobic’ and racist dog whistling over comments he made about EU citizens living in the UK. Boris Johnson said that Eu migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for far too long, while on the campaign trail […]

The Conservative Party has been condemned for yet another dishonest and misleading election campaign stunt, in which the party imitated an NHS prescription in a party leaflet. The leaflet has been criticised for being misleading, deceptive, and ‘deeply dishonest’ by the fact-checking organisation Full Fact. It gives information on how the Conservatives allege to improve […]

Arlene Foster had harsh words for Boris Johnson for breaking his promise over protecting the integrity of the union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party said that government officials had told her there would need to be customs checks between the two, despite the prime minister’s continued public […]