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The shadow employment rights secretary Laura Pidcock and Kay Burley clashed over the source of documents held by Labour which the party says prove the NHS is ‘on the table’ in trade talks with the United States. The Labour leader last week claimed he had an unredacted report that gave details of meetings between US […]

Boris Johnson has been heckled on his visit to Salisbury – firstly by being told he has dandruff, and secondly while on the Christmas market. Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a visit to the Kent Event Centre, Maidstone. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire. – Credit: PA Initially the prime minister was visiting veterans living near […]

The business owner and activist Gina Miller has said another Conservative government can be prevented with a three-way coaltion, as long as voters cast their ballot tactically. After the exclusive this morning on @SophyRidgeSky @SkyNews - here is our latest https://t.co/bHd6n1fMy5 #TacticalVoting #GE2019 'live predictions' press release. Website now updated to reflect new data. Please […]

Former chairman of the Conservative party Jeffrey Archer has said he has turned to left-leaning papers for his election news to counterbalance the ‘prejudiced’ coverage in the Telegraph. The Thatcherite life peer told the Brief Encounters podcast that the paper has become “so prejudiced and so unbelievable I have to read the Guardian to try […]

Donald Trump has claimed that he does not know where the rumours about involving the NHS in a US trade deal started – despite him saying it himself. The US president was asked about the suggestion the health service could be involved in a post-Brexit trade deal during his first press conference ahead of a […]

A group of academics have said there are serious ‘unclear and unrealistic’ Brexit goals in the manifestos of every party, but current Conservative plans could economically cripple the UK. The UK in a Changing Europe, a thinktank of researchers and academics promoting independent research into UK-EU relationships, say “even under the scenario of a Conservative […]

Alastair Campbell has written two open letters to voters in marginal seats encouraging them to back the Lib Dems or Labour, depending on who is best placed to stop the Tories. If the polls, and my sense of the current mood, are right, Boris Johnson is on for a majority. Nothing like the majorities we […]

The secretary of state Dominic Raab has denied claims that the Conservative Party wishes to sell off the NHS to private operators, despite explicitly advocating for that in a 2011 book he co-authored. "That's a ludicrous assertion"@DominicRaab denies pamphlet he co-authored – suggesting 2/3 hospitals could be run privately or not for profit – would […]

The founder of the Brexit Party – who created the organisation before Nigel Farage took over – has called for a Muslim ban in response to the London Bridge tragedy. Catherine Blaiklock, who was forced out as leader after her racist views were exposed, took to Twitter to attack Boris Johnson for his response to […]

Jeremy Corbyn has written US president Donald Trump a letter demanding he does not involve the NHS in a post-Brexit trade deal. The Labour leader last week claimed he had an unredacted report that gave details of meetings between US and UK officials, where they discussed the stipulations of a free trade deal between the […]

A video has been unearthed which shows Boris Johnson as a backbench MP criticise the Labour party for refusing to break up the NHS. EXCL: New clip unearthed exclusively by The Red Roar shows Boris Johnson call for the break up of the 'monolithic, monopolistic' NHS in 2002 speech. https://t.co/F9OsLfh6g9 pic.twitter.com/vNLpMSCB2u— The Red Roar (@TheRedRoar) […]

The broadcaster’s regulator has rejected complaints made by the Conservative Party over Chanel 4’s decision to replace them with a melting ice sculpture in their climate change debate. The broadcaster’s regulator have rejected a complaint formt he Conservative Party over Channel 4’s decision to replace them with a melting ice scultpure in their climate debate. […]

Sweary? Want to track where the UK has agreed post-Brexit trade deals? There’s a website you might like. An expletive-ridden one-stop shop for trade deal watchers has been set up by the people behind the Twitter account @fuckingbrexit. The site, www.havewegotafuckingtradedealyet.com, aims to list every country in the world that the UK has a trade […]

A polling mastermind has given a message of hope to those who want to stop the Conservatives. Speaking on the BBC’s Politics Live, political research manager Chris Curtis said: “When you look at the numbers you kind of feels like the Tories might have run out of voters to squeeze.” Curtis has worked at the […]

Nigel Farage has claimed that the Brexiteers who do not support Nigel Farage’s vision for Brexit are ‘wrong’. Speaking at the latest Brexit Party campaign event, he said those that support Boris Johnson’s deal are the “wrong” type of Brexiteers. He told ITV News that the “right type of Brexit” is one that is “free […]

Boris Johnson was the highest earning MP in the last parliament, trousering £800,000 on top of his MP’s salary, according to new calculations. In the last parliament British MPs earned £8.4 million on top of their salaries, according to data website Data Lobo, with 15 MPs earning more than half of that. Lobo has released […]

The prime minister has been accused of ‘weapons grade sh**housery’ after allegedly plagiarising a legal blogger who had written about the London Bridge terror attack. Boris Johnson posted a 16-part thread to his Twitter profile foallowing the attack, in an attempt to clear up some of the legal questions and inaccuracies people had about the […]

A small plane has been seen flying all over the nation with a bizarre message for Remainers which has left onlookers confused. The small plane is towing a banner which reads Remainers are Kaput, in black and white, with a red hammer and sickle also shown. Photo: Andrew McNally – Credit: Archant The small plane […]

Sinn Fein has claimed their voice was being ‘loud and clear’ on the key issue ‘of a generation’ – despite not sitting in the House of Commons to vote. Mary Lou McDonald said it was the election of a generation due to the challenge posed to Northern Ireland by Brexit, but rejected criticism of her […]

A life-long Labour supporter who LBC Radio’s Iain Dale said is his ‘favourite caller of all time’ has slammed the prime minister and Conservative party in an epic five minute rant on the radio station. A life-long Labour supporter who LBC Radio’s Iain Dale said is his “favourite caller of all time” has slammed the […]

A historian and writer has set the record straight on Brexiteer arguments that the UK has ever been ‘oppressed’ by European Union membership. The Conservatives have recently launched the new election slogan “set Britain free”, prompting Dr Helene von Bismarck to retweet her own response from a recent lecture. The slogan’s sentiment follows remarks from […]

After spending the election campaign in hiding because of shameful comments he made about the Grenfell fire on LBC radio, Jacob Rees-Mogg has briefly re-emerged in a video showing him run from a constituent. Rees-Mogg was campaigning in Monkton Combe, Somerset where he was videoed by a voter who asked him a question he had […]

UKIP’s interim leader was stumped on basic questions like where she is fielding candidates or details of the party’s immigration policy in a car-crash interview. Please do yourself a favour. Go to sky news on YouTube and rewind to Adam Boulton's interview with interim Ukip leader Pat Mountain about 20 minutes ago. It's glorious.— Mikey […]

The political comedian who has made a name for himself pretending to be an adviser feeding lines to politicians in a separate room as they are interviewed has been left speechless in his latest video. the room next door - Boris Johnson and Andrew Marr pic.twitter.com/yl2XWTe759— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) December 2, 2019 Watching along ‘live’ […]

Following a disastrous performance on Sky News, UKIP’s interim leader has used a manifesto launch to insist that they are not ‘seriously racist’. She told a press conference in Westminster: “Please give a good impression to the public that we’re not nasty racists. We are good, honest, caring people, all of us are. “I’ve never […]

A 2017 general election candidate for the Lib Dems has said he feels ‘guilty’ for running against a Labour candidate and allowing the Tories to ‘scrape in’. In 2017 the Conservatives beat Labour by just 500 votes while Hugh Lanham, the Liberal Democrat candidate, picked up 1,500 voters and the Greens got 800 votes. This […]

A Brexit Party candidate is taking carpetbagging to the next level by standing for the party with a registered address that is 14,500 miles away in Australia. Not content with giving us an MEP who lives in France, my constituency's Brexit Party general election candidate lives in Australia... pic.twitter.com/Xsgz9iMFo9— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) December 2, 2019 […]

The mother of a victim in the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 has called for the media and politicians to stop politicising the deaths of victims of terrorism after the London Bridge attack. ?"The emphasis has to not be a political game. It always has to be about the victims and families"@FigenMurray, whose son died […]