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A ‘furious’ caller corrected Conservative candidate Damian Green over a number of Boris Johnson’s ‘lies’ about facts and figures. Calling into LBC’s Eddie Mair show the caller, named Mark, started by criticising the Conservative pledge in 2015 to build 200,000 starter homes. He said: “The ONS has just reported you’ve built 200,000 starter homes – […]

Polling from YouGov has put Jeremy Corbyn ahead as the most favoured candidate to be prime minister among Remain voters. Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson with Lib Dem candidate for St Albans Daisy Cooper in St Albans whilst on the General Election campaign trail. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire – Credit: PA It follows concerns that […]

A compilation of clips of Boris Johnson being heckled has been updated due to a seemingly inexhaustible supply of content. When Dominic Cummings told a BBC reporter to “get out of London and talk to people who are not rich Remainers”, he may not have anticipated what would happen when the prime minister took this […]

The founder of the Brexit Party has claimed that the organisation will fail to win a single seat at the general election. Catherine Blaiklock, who was ousted from her post as leader following revelations of a series of racist tweets, said that the chances of Nigel Farage’s organisation winning a seat look unlikely. She told […]

There was mixed messaging from Brexit Party Nigel Farage’s latest Twitter post when he told Leavers not to ‘waste their vote’. https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1196458178214612998 Nigel Farage tweeted: “Don’t waste your vote” and attached a graphic which said “there are around 130 seats the Tories haven’t won in at least 50 years”. But the message left Twitter users, […]

A Brexit Party MEP has quit over another candidate’s homophobic comments, saying his personal values ‘are now in direct conflict with those of the party’. The Scotland MEP Louis Stedman-Bryce announced on Twitter that he was leaving the party because of homophobic comments posted by former parliamentary candidate Victor Robert Farrell. The Brexit Party has […]

A former Brexiteer and Conservative political commentator has claimed the media is to blame for letting Boris Johnson get away ‘with deceit with such ease’ and that BBC executives are complicit in this. Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph’s former chief political commentator, was a staunch Brexiteer and long-time supporter of the Conservatives – but now […]

A People’s Vote, a new voting system, and an investment of £100 billion a year to tackle climate change will be in the Green Party manifesto for the general election. The party will also include legislation for a “Green new deal”, intended to set Britain on track to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by […]

In the bid to try and encourage people to vote one Remain campaigner has gone the extra mile to get their attention. https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1196081539496448000 Femi Oluwole, the Our Future Our Choice campaigner, dropped his trousers and removed one of his trademark t-shirts in the pouring rain to talk about the importance of registering to vote in […]

Former prime minister Gordon Brown is set to warn it will take more than an election to end divisions in the UK – and it could take a generation. In a speech he will say that the country’s “bitter divisions are now not just over Brexit, but between north and south, rich and poor and […]

he broadcasters have announced a series of debates, including two head-to-heads after reaching an agreement between the Tories and Labour, a three-way debate and a seven-way debate. The first will involve a head-to-head debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn and will air on ITV on Tuesday at 8pm. On Friday 22 November, Fiona Bruce […]

The Brexit Party has disowned a candidate in Scotland who declared ‘war’ on the LGBTQ community. Look at the state of the @brexitparty_uk candidate standing in Glenrothes - crusading against lesbians, rampant youths and all those without god in their lives. @courier_fife @GlenrothesGaz @KingdomFMNews pic.twitter.com/U7A9QTV74p— Jenny Gilruth (@JennyGilruth) November 18, 2019 The candidate claimed the […]

A high court has ruled that ITV’s decision to exclude the Liberal Democrats and SNP from their leaders’ debate on Tuesday was lawful and that the broadcaster can go ahead with putting the show on as planned. ITV had planned to hold a head-to-head debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday night. The […]

A Tory peer is backing a Liberal Democrat candidate in London after slamming her party’s proposals for Brexit. Baroness Wheatcroft, a former business and city editor of The Times and former editor of The Sunday Telegraph, is backing Chuka Umunna in his Cities of London and Westminster seat. Her endorsement of Lib Dem Umunna came […]

A former Conservative minister had made a large, undisclosed donation to the Liberal Democrats as fears mount within the Tory ranks that Boris Johnson could take the UK out of the EU without a trade deal. Timothy Sainsbury, a former trade minister under Margaret Thatcher and the youngest son of Lord Sainsbury who founded the […]

Polling has suggested that Labour’s anti-billionaire sentiment is shared by the public, with 51% believing there should be no billionaires under any circumstances. According to a YouGov survey four in 10 believe that the increase in the super-wealthy is a sign that society is getting worse. A majority of supporters of all parties – excluding […]

A high court has heard how the views of voters who want to remain in the EU will be ‘ignored’ by leaving the Liberal Democrat and SNP leaders out of its televised election debate. Judges are appealing two separate legal challenges from the Lib Dems and SNP over their exclusion. Lord Justice Davis has said […]

The prime minister’s most senior aide is facing fresh questions over giving assistance to the Conservative Party while working as a civil servant. Dominic Cummings is a senior government advisor to Boris Johnson, and civil servants are not supposed to get involved in party political campaigning during election periods. However, the Liberal Democrats have written […]

Amid news that one in four black and Asian people is not on the electoral register, a grassroots organisation has put together a toolkit to encourage the most regularly disenfranchised groups in the UK to vote. Data released by the Electoral Commission (EC) estimates that a higher proportion of black and Asian voters, and voters […]

After losing a £500,000 libel case against the writer Jack Monroe, Katie Hopkins has been forced to sell her £1m Devon home and begin renting. No. Being a horrible person cost you your career. Karma is bitch, Katie, and so are you. There, I said it. https://t.co/roXQuJlIa8— Teeta (@anitamassey86) November 17, 2019 Having started her […]

The BBC has defended itself against complaints that claim comedy programme Have I Got News For You is biased against the Tories and Brexit. One episode hosted by Adil Ray on November 8th mocked Boris Johnson’s “over-ready” Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s comments about the Grenfell Tower fire, and James Cleverly’s failure to turn up on Sky […]

A leaked document examining the impact of Russian interference on UK elections suggests the 2016 referendum into leaving the EU was impacted by foreign agents. Boris Johnson’s government had repeatedly refused to release the report, claiming there was not enough time to publish it ahead of the election. However, a copy of the report published […]

Both Labour’s and Conservative’s promises to resolve Brexit quickly are misleading, according to the leaders of the UK’s largest business lobbying group. As political leaders of the three main parties prepared to address the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference, CBI president and Tesco chair John Allan said that no party has offered concrete answers […]

The US businesswoman at the centre of a controversy involving Boris Johnson has shed some light on the nature of her relationship with the prime minister after previously refusing to give any details. @Jennifer_Arcuri just saw you on Victoria Derbyshire. The point is no one is questioning your legitimacy to receive money, or your validity […]

Polling expert Sir John Curtice has said Brexit provides a ‘binary’ choice at the election, which involves either Boris Johnson’s plans or a coalition which gives the country a People’s Vote. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Curtice said Labour had made “a bit of ground at the expense of the Liberal Democrats amongst […]

ITV host Lorraine Kelly has vented her frustration at American businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri for an interview the presenter described as ‘crazy’. On Good Morning Britain (GMB), the former model at the centre of an alleged conflict of interest scandal described how Boris Johnson cut her out of their relationship – but refused to confirm that […]

A polling expert has predicted huge successes for one party in the country’s capital as they make gains in marginal seats. Peter Kellner, former director of YouGov and previously a BBC Newsnight reporter, said the Liberal Democrats are close behind the Conservatives who only hold “narrow leads” on a number of seats. In new constituency […]

Jo Swinson will declare the Liberal Democrats are the ‘natural party of business’ and she will insist remaining in the European Union gives the UK the best chance of success. Jo Swinson will declare the Liberal Democrats are the “natural party of business” and she will insist remaining in the European Union gives the UK […]