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Nigel Farage was left complaining some Question Time audience members had ‘an agenda’ after they pulled apart his ‘man of the people’ persona. Farage’s 34th appearance on the programme, part of a general election series of shows, did not go as smooth as he hoped when a young lady in the audience demolished his claims […]

The Conservative Party’s chair has faced criticism from the public and media for the party’s decision to rebrand their Twitter as a fact checking service. Speaking on BBC Newsnight, Emily Maitlis told the party’s chairman James Cleverly that the decision was “dystopian” and went against the prime minister’s claims about integrity. She said: “The Conservative […]

Jo Swinson has been criticised for saying without hesitation that she would be willing to use nuclear weapons as prime minister. Appearing on ITV’s Election Interview after the main debate, Swinson was asked if she would ever be prepared to use a nuclear weapon. Swinson did not hesitate to respond “yes”, with the interview praising […]

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued an appeal to voters and politicians to ‘honour the gift of truth’ during the general election campaign. The Most Rev Justin Welby and Dr John Sentamu said everyone had a duty to “speak accurately and challenge falsehoods” when engaging in political debate. In a joint pastoral letter […]

Nigel Farage has been told he should be ‘ashamed’ for his ‘breaking point’ poster more than three years after the EU referendum as he was told he had been dishonest with the public. Nigel Farage launching a new UKIP EU referendum poster campaign. Photograph: Phil Toscano/PA. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images Appearing on an election […]

The actor Ralf Little says he has been unable to access his Twitter account after he changed it to spoof the Conservative Party’s own attempts to pass itself off as a fact-checking service. A message from @RalfLittle: Just been logged out of my twitter account without explanation. Assume I've been suspended. Which is fine. But […]

Noel Gallagher – who told the British public to ‘get f*cking over it’ when it comes to Brexit – has revealed that he applied for an Irish passport ‘immediately’ after the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016. The Oasis frontman has previously claimed it was undemocratic to stop Brexit, having previously told Remain […]

The Conservative Party and Vote Leave have accepted far more donations from supporters of climate science denial than any other campaign, research has found. Over £5 million in donations from supporters of a prominent climate science campaign group has gone to Conservative MPs or the party HQ. Supporters of the same group, the Global Warming […]

Nigel Farage has said he has only ran for parliament once seriously – despite appearing on the ballot paper for Westminster seven times. The Brexit Party leader was responding to claims he was an “undemocratic leader” running the most undemocratic party in the UK and “refusing to run in a constituency” himself. He refuted the […]

Jeremy Corbyn has claimed the monarchy ‘needs a bit of improvement’ as the televised election debate moved on to the subject of the royal family and Prince Andrew. https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1196894380201635840 ITV’s Julie Etchingham quizzed the two prime ministerial hopefuls in light of questions over Andrew’s friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own […]

YouGov figures report the public is split nearly 50/50 in deciding who won the first TV election debate. It suggests the public is about as divided as they were three years ago when the UK voted to leave the EU, with 51% of respondents to a poll by YouGov saying that Boris Johnson performed best […]

The Tories have faced criticism after rebranding their Twitter as a fact-checking organistation during the ITV leaders’ debate. The Conservative Campaign Headquarters press office account was renamed factcheckUK during Tuesday evenings ITV debate. Photograph: Twitter/PA. – Credit: PA One of the UK’s most respected fact-checking organisation Full Fact has criticised the Conservatives for changing their […]

Jeremy Corbyn has pulled apart Boris Johnson’s pledge to ‘get Brexit done’ by the end of January in the first televised election debate. Starting the debate, the prime minister warned the UK faced more “dither and delay” under a Labour government. He said a vote for the Conservatives would be a vote to finally “get […]

The prime minister was laughed at by an audience after claiming the truth was important to him during ITV’s party leaders election debate. Audible laughter from the audience when Boris Johnson says truth matters in the #ITVDebate. He's a pathological liar and the whole country knows it.— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) November 19, 2019 When asked […]

It was the first major debate of the general election and thousands used Twitter to discuss Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson’s performance. https://twitter.com/tarajaneoreilly/status/1196882821194944512 These are just some of the best reactions from social media. https://twitter.com/jonoread/status/1196882920771932160 https://twitter.com/Chrisballingall/status/1196865280959533057 https://twitter.com/Sathnam/status/1196883706813829120 https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1196884282507223041 https://twitter.com/mightybarnski/status/1196886566515462144 https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1196889467942047745 https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1196891135668637703 https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/1196893169880834048 https://twitter.com/Sathnam/status/1196893941049765888 https://twitter.com/cheesecakebase/status/1196893897147998208 https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1196893399363792896 https://twitter.com/ILamacq/status/1196894963457499136 https://twitter.com/joshminterr/status/1196895186347003906 https://twitter.com/LibDemPress/status/1196895661230305289

The DUP’s leader Arlene Foster has made clear her party would not support Jeremy Corbyn in the event of a hung parliament. At the launch of a policy document in Belfast claimed that Corbyn would be bad for the future of the Union. At an event that highlighted how the £1 billion secured by the […]

The police are investigating claims that Arron Banks – a former UKIP donor and ally of Nigel Farage – had his Twitter account hacked. So this from @Twitter re @Arron_banks hacked account. it's seems it's OK to hack data and dump people's personal data. @ICOnews investigation? @metpoliceuk @kingsleynapley 18 hours and counting still nothing. pic.twitter.com/ehzzeSvLIx— […]

Boris Johnson could be replaced by a member of his cabinet in a highly-anticipated television debate. The prime minister looks set to get Rishi Sunak, the chief secretary to the Treasury, to represent him in one of the election campaign’s most major television debates. The 39-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker was an early backer of […]

The BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg is to front a new documentary on Brexit – documenting the rise of the Boris Johnson and could document his fall too. The hour-long BBC Two film is slated to detail the “many and various twists and turns of the past few chaotic months”. It will cover Boris Johnson […]

A study has proven the suspicions of many pundits, demonstrating how British newspapers consistently report negative stories about opposition parties while heaping positive reports on the Conservatives. "a large proportion of newspaper items that featured Labour sources had a clearly negative slant" https://t.co/zSEWz3nPa0 pic.twitter.com/znb7hxUwQ8— JamieSW (@jsternweiner) November 18, 2019 Academics from Loughborough University examined the […]

The Brexit Party is under investigation by the UK’s data watchdog over complaints that it has not promptly responded to requests for information it holds on voters. According to Sky News, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched the probe after people complained that the party had not responded to subject access requests made around the […]

The former Conservative minister for women, Anne Milton, has said Jeremy Corbyn is more sincere than Boris Johnson – who she compared to a child. Former Conservative @AnneMilton tells @EmmaBarnett Boris Johnson?"Reminds me of a child who can't get his own way"While Jeremy Corbyn is more "sincere" than Johnson, Labour policies would be "a disaster […]

The EU has agreed to triple funds for students participating in Erasmus+ over the next decade, just as the UK’s collaboration in the scheme looks less than certain. MEP JUDITH BUNTING says the injustice is both infuriating and heart-breaking. While Erasmus+ has traditionally been a platform through which university students can study abroad, until now […]

The leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson has warned the public to be wary of sharing misinformation after a story went viral claiming she had abused squirrels. Doctored images claiming to show an article on the Mirror’s website were shared thousands of times across Twitter and Facebook last week, including by a number of […]

Boris Johnson has at least achieved something in the election campaign – he has dodged the dubious honour of being the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister. Tuesday November 19 marked the 119th day of Johnson’s premiership – the same number of days clocked up as prime minister by George Canning in 1827. Canning died in office […]

A candidate for the Conservative Party in a key marginal has said he will force problem tenants to live in tents and work in a field if he is elected. Lee Anderson, who is running in Ashfield, is hoping to overturn a tiny Labour majority of 441 at the constituency in Nottinghamshire. The seat is […]

A new poll has found a noticeable difference between Leave and Remain voters on whether or not to believe Prince Andrew’s explanation around his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York was grilled in a now infamous Newsnight interview in which he addressed claims that he slept with a 17-year-old girl at the convicted […]

A Brexit Party candidate in Reading has reportedly had milkshake thrown at him during the election campaign. A milkshake attack in Reading today whilst campaigning for @brexitparty_uk #rdguk Candidate for #Parliament @PlanetPonzi pic.twitter.com/EODCNbMdpi— Teresa Fahy (@Tessacan61) November 17, 2019 The Reading Chronicle reports that Mitchell Feierstein, the candidate for Reading East, was handing out pro-Brexit […]