Boris Johnson, a former foreign secretary who helped lead the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign, is the runaway favourite to win a final pair of ballots on Thursday that will whittle down the race to replace Prime Minister Theresa May to two candidates. Johnson, who served as London mayor for eight ...
“Is Labour’s Brexit dilemma being misunderstood?”, Professor John Curtice wrote ahead of the crucial 2017 by-elections in Copeland and Stoke. The feeling at the time was that areas such as Stoke epitomised what the typical Labour voter wanted. Some 69 per cent of the party’s stronghold seat voted to Leave ...
The majority of Conservative members would countenance the destruction of their own party if it meant Brexit was delivered. A new poll has revealed that exiting the European Union has become a priority for members, subverting traditional loyalties and reshaping political priorities. The majority (54 per cent) said they would ...
Organisers of the Henley Literary Festival in Oxfordshire confirmed Brand is due to appear there twice today - with performances penned in for 2pm and 7.30pm
Dominic Grieve called Boris Johnson a “shallow populist” who would bring doom to the Conservative Party in a scathing interview published today. The Tory MP for Beaconsfield told The New European that Johnson would be “manifestly unsuitable for high office” if he won the leadership race – which he is ...
However high the wannabe PMs’ ambitions soar, they are all ignoring the massive come-down when Brexit reality actually kicks in.
As voters head to the polls in the Peterborough by-election, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party may well gain its first seat in Westminster today. But the new party campaigning hard for its first MP candidate Mike Greene has lost yet another senior figure to a fresh race hate scandal. A campaign ...
The Labour Party is making up ground in the Peterborough by-election with odds on Lisa Forbes to win plummeting from 7/1 to 5/1 today. Fifteen candidates are facing voters at the ballot box on Thursday in a contest that will have wide political ramifications. The election of a new MP ...
As Donald Trump meets Prime Minister Theresa May while expressing support for her possible successor Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn is set to address a rally against the US President. Hundreds of thousands of protestors are expected to march against the State Visit by Donald Trump from Trafalgar Square to Parliament ...