Jack Peat

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE).

He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author.

Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Corbyn gives Labour biggest vote share increase since 1945

Jeremy Corbyn has increased Labour's share of the vote more than any other leader in any other election since Attlee in 1945. The Labour leaders managed to increase Labour's vote share by 9.6 per cent, which is just shy of Clement Attlee's 10.4 per cent swing in 1945. Since then...

Britain has become a nation of two halves

Of all the pictures to emerge from last night's election coverage perhaps the most poignant was one of Theresa May stood next to a black knight as she awaited her constituency results in Maidenhead. For fans of Monty Python she had become the embodiment of the knight who stands legless...

Young vote jumps from 43% in 2015 to 72% in 2017

Early reports have suggested that the number of 18-24 year-olds voting in the General Election has jumped from 43 per cent in 2015 to 72 per cent in this year's snap election. A surge in registrations to vote was noted in the run-up to the election but it was unclear...

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Who are the DUP?

Of all the search queries you thought you might be typing in this morning I bet "who are the DUP" was certainly not one of them. Granted it is part of the wider quandary of "what comes next", but with just hours after the first results have landed the most likely outcome...

Daughter acts as surrogate mother for her mother

A woman who acted as a surrogate for her mother has given birth - to her own brother. Desperate Jacky Edwards, 47, was unable to carry a baby naturally but daughter Katherine, 30, offered to help. Jacky had suffered a traumatic pregnancy with her fifth child twelve years ago and...

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