Politics
Labour gain ground on Conservatives – again
There are signs that a 2017-style squeeze is taking shape with some Labour voters coming home and a relative lack of Brexit news looks like it’s helping Labour Leavers return to the fold.
‘We shouldn’t have let the bedroom tax through…We absolutely got it wrong on tuition fees’- Swinson
Jo Swinson said she has “learnt from mistakes” from her time in government
Ex-Tory MP Charlie Elphicke’s wife to contest his Dover seat at election
Natalie Elphicke said she was ‘delighted’ to have been adopted as the Conservative candidate for Dover and Deal.
Senior Tory accused of ‘whitesplaining’ by Baroness Warsi
It comes after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Conservatives would be conducting a ‘general investigation into prejudice’.
Nicola Sturgeon warns Boris Johnson SNP now has a mandate for indyref2
Launching the party’s General Election campaign, the SNP First Minister warned Boris Johnson has “no right to block the democratic wishes of the people of Scotland”.
Nicola Sturgeon outlines conditions for SNP supporting Labour government
At SNP’s General Election campaign launch, the First Minister said supporting a minority Labour government in a hung parliament at Westminster could work.
A Labour government would “dismantle the structural barriers” women face in the workplace
Ms Butler said that Labour’s proposed workplace reforms are ‘the common sense approach to the modern way of life’.
Johnson’s ‘do or dry’ pledge to give up alcohol until Brexit is delivered
Johnson was watched sipping whisky during a distillery visit in Scotland on Thursday, casting doubt on his commitment to the alcohol ban.
Corbyn critic Margaret Hodge says ‘government is more than any individual’
It comes after ex-Labour MP Ian Austin and John Woodcock advocated for the electorate to vote for Boris Johnson over Mr Corbyn on December 12.