‘This is going to be a disaster’: inside the Tories’ chaotic election campaign | General election 2024
When rumours spread that Chancellor Rishi Sunak was about to call an early election, one Conservative cabinet minister was asked by a colleague what was going on. “I have no idea,” he replied. “He’ll either call an early election today, or he’ll name a date in the autumn, or he’ll tell everyone that AI is […]
How Labour did it: inside the campaign that led to ‘Starmergeddon’ | General election 2024
aAs the election campaign entered its final week, staff at Labour HQ had a surprise guest: “Things are going really well,” Tony Blair told them, “I don’t bet, but…” His audience erupted in laughter, with the Conservative gambling scandal still fresh in their minds. But the former prime minister also wanted to reassure the exhausted […]
‘We’re not all Labour, but everyone was jubilant’: UK voters on the election result | General election 2024
aAfter 14 years of Conservative rule, Britain woke up to the news that the Labour Party had won a landslide election victory. Keir Starmer is expected to officially become Prime Minister later on Friday after Rishi Sunak conceded defeat following his party’s historic defeat. On Friday morning, the map of the UK was painted solid […]
Greens’ co-leader Carla Denyer unseats Labour in Bristol Central | General election 2024
Green Party co-leader Carla Denier has been elected Member of Parliament for Bristol Central in a major upset for the Labour Party. Mr Denier received 24,539 votes in the newly drawn constituency, comfortably beating Labour candidate and shadow frontbencher Thangam Devonair, who received 14,132 votes, to come in second. Devonaire has represented Bristol West, the […]
Jeremy Corbyn re-elected in Islington North after expulsion from Labour | General election 2024
Jeremy Corbyn won the Islington North constituency he has represented since 1983, but this is the first time he has been elected as an independent. The former Leader of the Opposition defeated local Labour MP Praful Nargund, who had been selected as his candidate by the party’s executive committee in May. Corbyn received 24,120 votes […]
Tories reeling from ‘catastrophic’ election poll forecast | General election 2024
The Conservative Party has been reeling from “disastrous” exit polls which predicted it would win just 131 seats – its worst election result since the party was formed. Rishi Sunak’s party is forecast to lose 241 seats overnight, giving Labour a comfortable majority of 170 seats, according to exit polls from the BBC, ITV and […]
Share your experiences of election night in the UK | General election 2024
We want to hear from UK voters (both at home and abroad) and other residents of the UK on whether they will follow the election results. We’d love to hear about scenes and pictures from Election Night in your area. Are you planning to stay up late to see the seats being clinched? If so, […]
UK voters must present photo ID for first time in general election
For the first time ever, people voting in Thursday’s U.K. general election must bring an accepted photo ID to have their ballot counted. The general election is a pivotal moment for Britain and could see the Conservative Party lose control after 14 years in power. A man walks into the Whitley Bay cemetery where there […]
It has been a terrible general election. The least we can do is learn from it | Hugh Muir
IIt began as black comedy: the sight of Rishi Sunak, soaked in the rain behind the podium at Number 10, looking like a drowned rat in a sharp suit, shouting the fact that he’d been elected by sudden death, drowned out by a hostile megaphone, was vaudeville. The race itself Hobbes’s: “Poor, mean, brutish, and […]
Biden is inching us ‘closer and closer’ to another Cold War, retired US general warns
Retired U.S. Air Force General Rob Spalding reacts to Russia’s latest move to park a fleet of warships in Cuba on ‘Cavuto: Coast … source