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Boris Johnson’s pledge to cut out alcohol until Brexit is delivered has been doubted after he was snapped sipping whisky during a distillery visit. Boris Johnson meets staff and nurses during a visit to King’s Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire. – Credit: PA The prime minister’s apparent “do or dry” pledge followed […]

An academic whose expertise is political polling says the Brexit Party won’t win a single seat and will only sap votes from Tories. Professor Matthew Goodwin from the University of Kent said Farage risks “damaging his legacy” as the politician who swung the referendum campaign by taking votes from the Conservatives. According to a new […]

Presenter Fiona Bruce has finally apologised for making a misleading claim about Vote Leave on Question Time. A young audience member on BBC Question Time points out the allegations of wrongdoing in the Vote Leave campaign (left) but host Fiona Bruce dismissed them (right). Photograph: BBC. – Credit: Archant The presenter acknowledged that she had […]

Social media network Facebook has admitted it cannot track all of the political adverts that appear on its platform. In a conference call with journalists ahead of the general election, Facebook said it was better prepared than ever for dealing with misinformation and had set up a special operations centre where staff would work to […]

A video of Boris Johnson attempting to explain his Brexit deal at a party function has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. You're at a wedding & a boozed-up uncle starts making a rambling speech & everyone is too transfixed to intervene pic.twitter.com/RaETEs0Ota— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) November 8, 2019 The prime minister entered into […]

More than half a million people, including more than 70,000 children, have not been granted the right to carry on living in the UK permanently after Brexit, official figures suggest. Around 1.8 million people had applied to the EU Settlement Status up until the end of September, and just under one million were granted settled […]

A group has been set up to offer proxy votes for Remain-voting Britons living overseas. The UK government has been accused of making it deliberately harder for voters living abroad. Citizens living abroad can vote in UK elections for up to 15 years after leaving the country, either by post or by appointing a UK […]

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The Conservatives have once again struck exactly the wrong note after Matt Hancock tweeted an on-the-trail campaign video that has been roundly mocked. Ice blue M&S shirt. Gentleman's navy sports blazer. Skinny mochaccino latte and purring MPV. A-ha! It's a twat in Yorkshire. https://t.co/eD8A6YxcZ3— (@Alconcalcia) November 8, 2019 Standing on a country road with a […]

What’s your take on the events of the week? Let us know your views on the key questions that have emerged for Remainers this week, on everything from Unite to Remain to who you want to stay in politics. – Got other views? Email us at letters@theneweuropean.co.uk

A Question Time audience in Glasgow erupted into fits of laughter after a Tory election candidate claimed Boris Johnson cared about Scotland. Barry Gardiner on Question Time. Photograph: BBC. – Credit: Archant Kirstene Hair outlined why she believed why the SNP was failing Scotland as she said it was more concerned with chasing independence than […]

The Conservative candidate for Broadland Nick Conrad has announced he is standing down over ‘ill-judged comments’ during a radio discussion about a rape case. Nick Conrad, 34, had received the backing of the local party on Wednesday to run for the seat held by Tory Keith Simpson, who has stepped down after 22 years as […]

The leader of the Brexit Party has reacted to the latest front cover of The New European, which called him ‘Remain’s secret weapon’. Our article centred on claims that the Brexit Party could undermine the Leave campaign, taking vital votes away from Boris Johnson by “shouting ‘betrayal'” and “claiming Johnson’s deal is yet another variant […]

The Green Party in Northern Ireland has joined an informal Remain alliance in Belfast to help the anti-Brexit cause. The party will not stand in any of the city’s four constituencies in order to clear the way for other pro-European candidates.The move follows an earlier agreement between Sinn Fein and the SDLP, which has seen […]

A Liberal Democrat candidate asked to stand aside as part of a pro-Remain election pact has vowed to run as an independent and has claimed that members of his party are ‘extremely unhappy’ about how the deal was struck. Mike Powell, who intended to stand in Pontypridd as a Lib Dem candidate, said he was […]

A Conservative candidate has become stuck trying to defend Boris Johnson’s misleading claim that he is funding 40 new hospitals – shortly after saying she agreed the NHS should not be weaponsied. LBC host and political commentator, Iain Dale, called out Conservative candidate for Chichester, Gillian Keegan, after she agreed with Chris Hopson on NHS […]

The pro-Leave parties may be about to unite in their own pact to rival the organisation of the pro-Remain alliance. The Lib Dems, Greens, and Plaid have done a deal to give each other a free run in 60 seats. The Remainers are getting organised, so why aren't Boris and Nigel?Brexiteers DEMAND a pact! Sign […]

Brexit is the key factor for the majority of students who are prepared to vote tactically, new analysis has found. According to a poll of 1,000 students by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), more than half of all students will vote in a way “to maximise the chances of their side of the Brexit […]

In just three days, a petition calling on the government to release a report on alleged Russian interference in British politics has hit nearly 150,000 signatures. The report produced by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has been through all stages of approval from intelligence agencies and now only awaits the prime minister’s approval for […]

An American television presenter has been left dumbfounded by the British government’s decision not to publish the report on Russian interference until after the election. “You think we’ve got it bad? Spare a thought for our cousins across the pond today,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told viewers. “We’ve got our own drama but our closest […]

An influential investment group has told the investors of JD Wetherspoon to vote down an annual report because of concerns on pro-Brexit spending. The Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (PIRC) group said the annual report may have bias after the Guardian raised questions about the pub-chain spending almost £95,000 during the 2016 referendum campaign. The […]

Labour’s Jess Phillips and Angela Rayner have hit out after the Conservative party announced it had selected a former radio host who said women should ‘keep their knickers on’ as its general election candidate. Former BBC Radio Norfolk presenter Nick Conrad, 34, has received the backing of the local Tory party despite infamous comments he […]

The polling expert John Curtice has said the Unite to Remain campaign ‘could be crucial’ and made predictions about how it could go. The polling expert John Curtice has said the Unite to Remain campaign “could be crucial” and made predictions about how it could go. Curtice, a professor of politics at the University of […]

TIM WALKER reviews The Girl Who Fell which is at Trafalgar Studios until November 23. When I think of the internet, and how the world was before we had it and how it is now, I wonder if Sir Winston Churchill’s verdict on Stanley Baldwin doesn’t also hold good for its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. […]

TERENCE BUTLER looks back at the films produced in the immediate aftermath of the First World War and the message they conveyed. The poetry and literature of the First World War remain staples of exam syllabuses to this day, helping to shape modern understanding of the conflict. Yet the films produced in its immediate aftermath […]

The mayor of London said he believes Tom Watson did not intend to damage Labour by stepping down as the party’s deputy leader on day one of their election campaign. Speaking to Sadiq Khan, LBC Radio host James O’Brien said: “Deputy leader of the Labour party, day one of the campaign, it seems he wanted […]

MITCH BENN on why there are no safe seats in this election and uses Richmond Park to defend tactical voting. It’s utterly absurd that while I’ve been writing this column for a little over three years now, not only is this the second general election I’ve had to cover in that time, but that previous […]

Former Labour Leaver MP Kate Hoey has said she will not be voting for Labour at the next general election – but would not reveal specifically who she is planning to back. The Brexiteer was answering questions on BBC News as an outgoing MP when she was asked by presenter Huw Edwards how she was […]