Jeremy Corbyn failed to land a knock-out blow on Boris Johnson in the final head-to-head leaders debate of the general election campaign. Conservatives will be delighted their leader emerged unscathed from the debate while Labour supporters may be left lamenting a lost opportunity to decisively swing the campaign in their favour. Voters will make their […]
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Three Brexit Party MEPs have resigned the whip and called on Leave supporters to forget about Nigel Farage and vote Conservative instead. The MEPs carried out their “mutiny” just a day after another Brexit Party MEP was stripped off the party whip – and just one week before the general election. The group of four […]
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Boris Johnson blamed political “cowardice” for keeping the NHS free for all but the “genuinely sick” and “elderly” and argued that “if people have to pay” for NHS services, “they will value them more.” In a column for the Spectator magazine in 1995, unearthed by Business Insider, Johnson wrote that charging patients would prevent the […]
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The Labour Party announced plans yesterday to reduce the cost of many train tickets from January 2020. Instead of the 2.8% increase currently scheduled, the price of regulated fares would fall by 33% and would be completely scrapped for those under the age of 16. The Labour manifesto had promised to bring down train fares […]
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Donald Trump arrives in London tonight (Monday) and senior Tories are alarmed the visit could turn into “a train wreck” for Boris Johnson with just ten days left before the general election. The US president will be attending the NATO Conference but Conservatives are concerned Trump could become “the most dangerous weapon in the armoury” […]
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Boris Johnson has been criticised for trying to make “political mileage” from the attack in London that saw a known and convicted tag-wearing terrorist kill two people in the capital. Usman Khan, 28, stabbed a man and a woman to death and injured three others in the knife attack in London Bridge, before he was […]
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Boris Johnson’s own words make him “a racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, liar” who is “unfit to hold the office of Prime Minister”, according to opponents who have seized on newly unearthed comments made by the PM when he wrote for The Spectator magazine. Johnson has also been slammed as a “bottler” given increasing speculation that […]
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It is impossible to gauge the social media impact on the election, but the recent Tory fact check stunt highlights the crucial role it plays. During the recent TV debate, the Conservatives changed the look of their press Twitter account, a move now criticised by the founder of the web, Tim Berners-Lee. Only for the duration […]
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Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, has today issued a strong criticism of the problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Writing in the Times, he expressed his horror at “a new poison – sanctioned from the top – [which] has taken root in the Labour Party”. His article […]
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Boris Johnson’s key election pledge to introduce 50,000 new nurses to tackle the NHS staffing crisis has been slammed by opponents as “frankly deceitful”. The Prime Minister announced the policy at the launch of the Conservative party’s general election manifesto in Telford where he promised to “release the lion from its cage” and “forge a […]
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