The BBC has been accused of “lefty Blairite bias” as it was criticised for selecting a panel of Rishi Sunak critics to join its flagship Sunday politics show. All three guests invited to debate the political issues of the day on the Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme have condemned Mr Sunak’s leadership to varying degrees. […]
Labour is on course for a 262-seat majority in the upcoming UK general election, analysis by pollster Survation has suggested. The analysis and modelling based on more than 40,000 surveys indicates Labour is ahead in 456 seats, with the Tories in first place with just 72. Meanwhile, a voting intention poll by Savanta also contained […]
Reform UK has overtaken the Conservatives in a major opinion poll, as UK prime minister Rishi Sunak continues his absence from the UK General Election campaign trail to meet world leaders in Italy. A YouGov survey commissioned by the Times newspaper had Nigel Farage’s party at 19 per cent to the Conservatives 18 per cent […]
Nigel Farage “should be welcomed” by the Conservative Party, former UK home secretary Suella Braverman has said. In an interview with The Times, Ms Braverman said the Tories are a “broad church”, and should not exclude anyone who wants “Conservatives to get elected”. Her comments come days after a poll suggested Mr Farage, the Reform […]
The Conservatives dropped one of their parliamentary candidates hours before nominations closed on Friday after receiving a complaint about his conduct. Jaymey McIvor had been due to fight the Hemel Hempstead seat for the Tories in the General Election, but announced on Friday afternoon that he was withdrawing from the contest “for personal reasons”. In […]
The Conservative Party has accepted another £5 million (€5.8 million) from Frank Hester, the businessman accused of saying Labour’s Diane Abbott “should be shot”, new figures show. UK Electoral Commission data released on Thursday showed the payments from Mr Hester’s healthcare software firm, the Phoenix Partnership, in January, before he became embroiled in a row […]
Rishi Sunak has promised to reduce immigration as he unveiled a new visa cap pledge, while Sir Keir Starmer vowed that Labour’s proposed GB Energy company would “close the door” on Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Both Labour and the Tories made their latest election announcements late on Monday night, after a major YouGov poll suggested Sir […]
In what was arguably the most decisive moment of the 2019 campaign, with support for his Brexit Party already slipping in the polls, Nigel Farage announced that he was withdrawing his party’s candidates from all of the seats that the Conservatives were defending. Support for the party fell away further as Leave voters nearly all […]
Nigel Farage has electrified the general election campaign, taking over as leader of Reform UK and launching a bid to become an MP. As first revealed by The Independent on Monday lunchtime, Mr Farage will run in Tory-held Clacton in Essex in what is already being described as “an existential risk” for the Tories. The […]
Nigel Farage has said voting for the Conservative Party is a “wasted vote” as he set out Reform UK’s election campaign agenda in Dover. The Reform honorary president, who has declined to stand as an MP, launched the party’s campaign at a yacht club on the Kent seafront, which he described as the “frontline of […]
A Tory MP who is leaving the British Parliament has quit the party and backed Reform UK in the seat she is vacating. Outgoing Telford MP Lucy Allan said Reform’s Alan Adams would offer an alternative to “more of the same politics and more of the same politicians”. The Tory Party responded by suspending her […]
Eighteen year olds in Britain would be forced to carry out a form of national service if the Tories are voted back in at the July 4 UK General Election, Rishi Sunak has announced. The UK Prime Minister said Britain has “generations of young people who have not had the opportunities they deserve” as he […]