Forget U-turns, most people think Britain's top politicians are telling porky pies in their manifesto pledges, and they have revealed the politicians they think have their pants on fire. With the General Election a week away trust in political parties seems to have dropped to an all-time low, with 71 per cent ...
By The Retired Raver The eagerly anticipated leaders election debate took place tonight in Cambridge with the conspicuous and much mentioned absence of the Prime Minister Theresa May. The seven politicians including the last minute entrance of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, took their places onstage and lined up to challenge Conservative stand in Amber Rudd ...
Given that they hold so much influence over our hearts and minds, it’s a bit of a problem for our democracy that the majority of the UK press is owned by a handful of foreign-based billionaires, who predominantly back the Tories.. The proprietors of our favourite newspapers have significant financial interests ...
Just over a week before the snap election that Theresa May called buoyed by a massive lead in the polls, YouGov's first seat by seat projection of the campaign suggests that the Tories will now fall 16 seats short of an overall majority. This would be a shocking result - especially ...
It’s campaigning season — and that means party political broadcasts. Here’s what the parties have been saying … and what we might read between the lines of their scripted addresses to the nation. A party political broadcast by Theresa May It’s been remarked that Prime Minister Theresa May is running ...
Bookies have slashed Labour's odds of gaining the most seats in the General Election from 16/1 to 7/1 in just two weeks. A strong display from Corbyn and Co has led to a revival of Labour's chances at getting a result in June. May's dementia tax and a "strong and ...
Labour is punching its weight with donations but is receiving them from the many and not the few, the Financial Times Chief Political Correspondent Jim Pickard has claimed. Donations to the Conservatives were more than double Labour's during the first quarter of 2017, according to new figures from the Electoral Commission. Theresa May's ...
Two weeks ago we published a story highlighting one starting fact: If 30 per cent more people under 25 vote, the Tories could lose the election. New data on voting trends had come to light suggesting that a mass mobilisation of young voters could swing the election, with a mega-poll of nearly ...
It may seem like a distant memory now, but there was a time before the UK voted itself out of Europe and the US voted in a celebrity halfwit that things had started to look up for the progressive, liberal left. Bernie Sanders had roused public appetite by advertising a new brand of ...