General Election 2019

A much-anticipated poll from YouGov, which most accurately predicted the outcome of the last general election, predicts Boris Johnson will fall short of a majority. YouGov’s multilevel regression and post-stratification poll is commonly known in the industry as ‘MRP’ and seeks to predict the outcome of Britain’s general election on December 12. The MRP polling […]

A Tory minister has been accused of avoiding the ‘searchlight’ of scrutiny on his party’s problem with Islamophobia, and was compared to the Labour leader for its milquetoast response to the issue. Justice secretary Robert Buckland was confronted on BBC’s Andrew Neil show with examples of egregious prejudice towards Muslims by Conservative party figures, both […]

Former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine is urging people to vote either Lib Dem or ex-Tory MPs standing as independents in the general election. At a Lib Dem press conference in central London Heseltine made an impassioned case for Britain’s place in Europe, and of immigration to the UK. He lambasted the Tory party’s campaign […]

Hugh Grant has announced he plans to head out ‘on the stump’ with Dominic Grieve and will be supporting a ‘dolly mixture’ of candidates in a tactical voting drive. I am pleased and privileged to have your support and look forward to seeing you - DG— Dominic Grieve for Beaconsfield (@DominicGrieve1) November 27, 2019 The […]

A former leader of the miners’ struggle has spoken out on how Brexit has turned sour for him, saying it puts the UK ‘into the arms of Donald Trump’. Ken Capstick, former vice president of the Yorkshire National Union of Miners has said in a candid interview that his criticisms of the EU led him […]

New data from pro-EU campaign Best for Britain shows that the Conservatives could win up to 366 seats unless the electorate gets out and votes tactically, say the group. Their analysis of 39,476 voters using multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) found that this predicted majority depended on the Tories holding onto and gaining a “significant […]

A newspaper group has accused the Lib Dems of trying to pass the publication off as one of his group’s newspapers in the same area it circulates the Basingstoke Gazette. Newsquest editorial director Toby Granville said he would advise editors in the organisation not to publish campaign news for the Lib Dems unless the leaflet […]

After Boris Johnson decided to send a stand-in to the BBC’s seven-way election debate on Friday, Jeremy Corbyn has opted to do the same thing In their place will be chief secretary to the treasury, Rishi Sunak, for the Tories, and shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey for Labour. WATCH: Boris Johnson’s debate stand-in asked: ‘What’s […]

Comedian Russell Howard has taken on one of Matt Hancock’s general election video tweets, and won. It seems like the would-be Tory health and social care minister just can’t catch a break with his attempts to crack relatable social media. His latest video, in which he discusses the Tory manifesto’s aims for the NHS, has […]

Boris Johnson could be ’empty-chaired’ during a television debate after he has so far refused to confirm attendance. Boris Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage have yet to confirm attendance for an hour-long Emergency On Planet Earth debate on Channel 4 News, which will focus solely on climate change. The broadcaster said the debate […]

A general election candidate was booed by a hustings audience when he named the wrong constituency in his campaign speech. The Courier will be asking Mr Nicolson about this today but I can't guarantee he won't send the response to the Kirkintilloch Herald https://t.co/ZP0mmM8ovc— David Clegg (@davieclegg) November 27, 2019 The SNP’s John Nicolson did […]

Jo Swinson has won a court case stopping the SNP distributing a leaflet which it claimed exposed the ‘hypocrisy’ of the Lib Dem leader. The SNP’s leaflet, produced for rival in East Dunbartonshire Amy Callaghan, claimed that £14,000 donation from a “fracking company”. But lawyers acting on behalf of the Lib Dem leader said the […]

A record-breaking number have applied to register to vote on the deadline day. A total of 659,666 people applied to register to vote on the day of the deadline to take part in the general election. It is the largest volume of applications submitted in a single day since registration data was first published in […]

The Lib Dems have increased pressure on Boris Johnson and the Tories after concerns that the party could work with their former coalition allies again once the votes are counted. A new Lib Dem poster criticises Boris Johnson. Photograph: Lib Dems. – Credit: Archant New general election posters from the anti-Brexit party accuse the prime […]

Boris Johnson’s chancellor Sajid Javid has refused to criticise the prime minister for his use of language to describe Muslim women. Speaking on the campaign trail, Javid struggled to explain Boris Johnson’s use of words like “letterboxes” and “bank robbers” to describe Muslim women wearing a veil, which he wrote in a column for The […]

Scotland will pay a ‘heavy price’ for the Conservatives’ Brexit obsession, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said. Launching her party’s manifesto in Glasgow, Sturgeon said: “The leaders of the No campaign, made up of the Westminster parties, promised that if we voted No, we would get stability. “Since then, the Westminster parties have delivered not […]

The New European has waylaid the prime minister during one of his campaigning walkabouts in an attempt to get some answers on the Russia report. Boris Johnson was given a free copy of this issue, with a cover design by Chris Barker depicting him as a Russian doll. Picture: Archant – Credit: Archant Boris Johnson […]

Campaigners for a second referendum have released a list of 25 recommended candidates in key marginal constituencies aimed at preventing the majority Boris Johnson needs for a free rein with a hard Brexit. A new organisation, Vote for a Final Say (VOFS), will be working with young activists from For our Future’s Sake to support […]

Nigel Farage has complained that the election has not ‘taken off’ as a poll put his Brexit Party on just 4% of support. Farage was meeting voters at a working men’s club in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, when he hinted he could spoil his ballot paper on polling day. He said he thought there would be […]

Boris Johnson is weakening his negotiating hand with the EU for short-term popularity with British voters – but his trade deal with the EU will be even harder to achieve than Theresa May’s, warned a former ambassador to the bloc. Sir Ivan Rogers, who resigned in 2017 as the senior civil servant dealing with Brexit […]

The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has prompted a collective cringe on social media after he baited Stormzy with his own rap lyrics on Twitter. Big man ting!— Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) November 26, 2019 In reaction to the grime artist’s public declaration of support for the Labour party, Michael Gove earlier told TalkRadio that […]

Child poverty is set to continue rising to a 60-year high under a Conservative government, while Labour’s spending would prevent a further 550,000 children living in poverty, a new report has found. The report from the Resolution Foundation found that the Tories’ 2019 manifesto makes no change to existing social security policy and risks child […]

The Liberal Democrats are beginning to regret several general election campaign decisions, including the promise to revoke Article 50 if they receive a majority, according to reports. The confidence the party enjoyed during the summer has faded somewhat, reports the FT, with expectations of 60 to 80 seats now cut to 40 at best. At […]

A raucous hustings in Dominic Raab’s constituency became even noisier when it emerged that the grieving family of Harry Dunn had not been allowed in. Supporter of Harry Dunn's family complains they haven't been allowed in. All hell breaks lose. pic.twitter.com/5EPNmeB72m— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 25, 2019 The foreign secretary was facing a grilling from […]

The Conservative party fulfilled less than half of the promises outlined in its 2017 manifesto – and the others were less ‘important’ to voters, say researchers A new study has found that only 48% of the promises made to the electorate have been fulfilled, and most of those were considered by voters as less central […]

A Twitter user has dubbed one of Matt Hancock’s latest general election Twitter videos with Silence of the Lambs dialogue. Despite his best efforts to take off on social media, Matt Hancock has had numerous bumps in the road whilst trying to get his message across in video tweets. One tweet, in which Hancock gave […]

The BBC has issued an apology following public backlash to a clip which edited out the audience’s reaction to a question put to Boris Johnson. A newsreel summarising clips from Friday’s two-hour Question Time election special, edited out a derisive audience reaction when the prime minister was asked how the public can trust him. The […]

A Conservative incumbent told voters he is not ‘personally’ able to do anything about child poverty in his seat, in which he has been MP for nine years. At a campaign event in Sittingbourne and Sheppey, where in some areas nearly half of the children live below the poverty line, incumbent Gordon Henderson placed much […]