‘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 […]
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 […]
This exit poll portends total rejection of these amoral Tories – and incredible vindication for Labour | Hugh Muir
Gradually, and then suddenly. Ernest Hemingway famously described his characters’ bankruptcies.Thus came a brutal end to 14 years of Tory hegemony in Britain. If the exit polls published just after 10pm are even half right, this is more of a punitive blow than a change of government, and a well-deserved retribution: Keir Starmer and his […]
What is the Tories’ Middle East legacy? Quietly tying Britain to the Gulf states and the brutal war in Yemen | David Wearing
IIf you want to get a clear picture of the character of the modern Conservative party, and the full extent of the damage it has caused during its recent tenure in power, there is no better place to start than Yemen, which by the late 2010s had become the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian […]
UK general election live: study finds ‘huge rise in working households pushed into poverty’ under Tories | General election 2024
Important Events Conservative Party suffers electoral setback as resources are diverted to defend ministerial seats Eleni Kourea As the Conservatives retreat to safer ground, they are reallocating resources to defend at least three seats held by ministers with a majority of more than 20,000. Conservative activists and candidates in the neighbouring area have been busy […]
Tories Sign ‘Hindu Manifesto’ General Election Pledge
A group of conservative politicians have signed a “Hindu Manifesto” document calling for new “hate crime” regulations and “streamlining immigration policy”. Several Conservative MPs Hindu Manifesto Candidates are required to abide by the document during elections in exchange for the political support of the country’s one million Hindus. The document comes as activists including Reform […]
Tories split over whether they should seek post-election merger with Reform UK – UK politics live | Politics
Important Events Bridget Phillipson says her Labour peers were wrong to say that VAT on private school fees could lead to overcrowding in state schools. Bridget PhillipsonThe shadow education secretary this morning sharply criticised a shadow cabinet colleague who argues that Labour’s plans to impose VAT on private school fees could lead to overcrowding in […]
General election live: Tories challenge Labour to join them in ruling out council tax reform | Politics
English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds | School funding
According to a leading British economic think tank, per-pupil education spending in England has been frozen for an unprecedented 14 years since the Conservative Party came to power. In its latest analysis of school spending, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said budgets per pupil are now at 2010 levels in real terms, but teacher salaries […]
Farage’s Reform UK Could Get More Votes Than the Tories, He Says
He has said that Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is “on the verge of collapse” and that Nigel Farage’s Reform Party could surpass it in votes, and called for a “political rebellion” against the “boring idiots” in power. Nigel Farage is set to return as leader of the former Brexit party he founded, Reform Britain, and […]