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The Labour party has garnered almost a million members following its General Election success. Jeremy Corbyn's party has picked up a further 150,000 members since Thursday bringing total membership numbers to 800,000. The Conservative Party membership figures were just under 150,000 in December 2016. Speaking on the Andrew Marr show this morning Mr Corbyn said the election signified a rejection of the “politics of fear” and said "we are ready any time” to govern. “We have a chaotic situation with a government...

The Labour Party has defied odds of 66/1 to win Kensington. The seat was the last to declare and went to Labour by just 25 votes after the count was paused because of teller fatigue. Historically Kensington is a Conservative stronghold, highlighted by Lady Victoria Borwick winning over 52 per cent of the vote back in 2015. It was also  Michael Portillo's seat when he won the 1999 by-election, and is also the constituency in which The Daily Mail is based. People...

A DUP billboard running an anti-Conservative pledge has backfired spectacularly after the party teamed up with the Tories to give them the majority they need to form a government. The advertisement features a woman giving her allegiance to Northern Ireland's DUP because she "wants an MP who answers to us - not to the Tories". But it will undoubtedly come back to bite the party in the arse. Theresa May announced today that she would be forming a government with...

The Midlands constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme was won by a margin of 30 votes after students were turned away because they weren't on the register. Yesterday news broke that admin errors could deny voters the chance to cast ballots in the marginal seat, but the students were urged to go back after the cock-up to place their vote. And it's a good job they did. The seat ended up been won by a slender 30 vote majority by Labour candidate Paul Farrelly who...

A Facebook post from May 20th claiming that if the Conservatives lose just six seats Jeremy Corbyn will become PM has come back to bite Theresa May on the arse after she lost more than five times that amount. The Tories have lost 26 seats to the Labour Party and five to the Liberal Democrats with one seat still to declare. May has decided to carry on regardless, relying on the help of the DUP to form a government. But...

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 only Tony Blair (8.8 per cent) has come close to achieving such a significant change with his landslide election win in 1997. In the year's that preceded Corbyn Labour managed...

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election was "a blunder of historic proportions", Exeter University's Head of History has said. With one result still to declare the 2017 General Election has resulted in a hung parliament with the Conservatives falling well short of the 326 seats needed to win. May will now look to form a government with Northern Ireland's DUP, which is a disastrous outcome given that the initial remit was to significantly increase David Cameron's majority. Professor...

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 how many would turn out on the day. As it was there was a phenomenal turnaround on 2015's number, with an estimated 72 per cent of young people casting their vote...

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 of the 2017 snap election is that the Tories will band together with Northern Ireland's DUP - either in a coalition or more likely a "supply and confidence arrangement" - which...