General Election 2019

Downing Street’s political strategist for the 2019 general election appears to make money out of anything he touches

Sir Ed Davey has said that he hopes the result of the general election will present a ‘huge opportunity’ for the Liberal Democrats in the upcoming year. The acting leader of the party made the comments in a new year’s message pledging to go beyond opposing Brexit and to “shake up the system” by tackling […]

Brexiteer and former MP Gisela Stuart has said today that she is still a member of the Labour party, despite urging the public to vote Tory in the general election. Extraordinary revelation on @talkRADIO this morning: @GiselaStuart says that she is still a Labour member - they haven't kicked her out - despite campaigning with […]

Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the government’s decision to remove protections for refugee orphans from its Brexit bill just days after winning the election. The Prime Minister might have a mandate to deliver Brexit, but he has no mandate to launch an attack on some of the most vulnerable people. He must take the measures on […]

John McDonnell has insisted that Jeremy Corbyn was the right leader for the Labour Party, saying that the party ‘could have won in 2017’. The former shadow chancellor, who said he will not be in the next shadow cabinet, said Corbyn had been the right person to be at the helm even though he had […]

Rod Stewart is facing a backlash on social media after he congratulated Boris Johnson for his general election win. Thank you once again to my legions of fans who I will never take for granted. Bless you all and a Merry Christmas. Well done Robbie, well done Boris, no hard feelings Pete Townshend! - Rod […]

Jo Swinson lost her position as Liberal Democrat leader after she failed to be re-elected to her East Dunbartonshire seat, leaving a major question mark over who will lead the party next. As the party’s constitution requires the leader to be an MP, a leadership election will take place in the new year. Former deputy […]

Business leaders have reacted coolly to Boris Johnson’s landslide victory, asking him not to rush towards ‘arbitrary negotiating deadlines’ for Brexit and highlighting ‘question marks’ over plans for immigration and infrastructure. After the Conservative party achieved a historic election win with the slogan “get Brexit done”, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has released a statement […]

SNP MP Joanna Cherry has said she will focus her energies on defending ‘Scottish democracy from Boris Johnson’ in the pursuit of a second independence referendum. The SNP MP for Edinburgh South West was returned to her seat with 24,830 votes and an 11,982 majority, in an election that saw her party win a landslide […]

A former Labour home secretary has offered bitter recriminations to Momentum, saying Jeremy Corbyn ‘couldn’t lead the working class out of a paper bag’. Alan Johnson has delivered invective that may well echo during the “period of reflection” that Corbyn has said he will have before he stands down as Labour leader. The encounter has […]

John Bercow made a stunning intervention to praise former Tory Dominic Grieve as the candidate prepared to concede the seat he has fought as an independent. Grieve, who lost the seat to the Conservatives’ Joy Morrissey, told Sky News that he expected not to win – prompting a heartfelt intervention from John Bercow. Sitting in […]

Jeremy Corbyn has stood down as leader of the Labour Party in the midst of a disastrous night for the party. He won his seat with a comfortable 34,603 votes, but is witnessing massive losses of seats nationwide. In a statement, he had scathing words for the media treatment of his family and his party, […]

Former speaker of the house John Bercow had quite the put-down for Andrea Leadsom over his decisions on Brexit-related parliamentary bsuienss. Bercow, who has clashed with Leadsom in the past, accused the business secretary of suffering from “the rather material disadvantage of being wrong”. He added that she “didn’t have a strong grasp of parliamentary […]

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced he will not lead the party into the next general election, but who will replace him? Here’s a look at the key players who may be looked on as replacements for Labour’s leader. – John McDonnell The shadow chancellor has been prominent throughout the general election campaign and is […]

A joint exit poll for the three major broadcasters has predicted the general election will produce a Conservative majority. Polling experts professors Sir John Curtice, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher have worked with BBC News, ITV News and Sky News on the polling, and is usually credited as giving an indication of how the election […]

Follow update from The New European as the election results pour in, and get the latest anti-Brexit analysis throughout the night. Jeremy Corbyn, Caroline Lucas, Jo Swinson, Nicola Sturgeon, Liz Saville-Roberts, and Boris Johnson. Photograph: TNE/PA. – Credit: Archant Follow the live coverage from 9pm…

Prominent anti-Brexit campaigner Jolyon Maugham has accused the government of breaching state aid rules by gifting ‘excessive’ access to public NHS data to Amazon. He has sent a letter, seen by PA news agency, lodging a formal complaint with the EU Commission which governs the scope of public assets that governments can give away. Maugham, […]

Nobody woke up this morning expecting to tweet about the prime minister leaping into a milk fridge, but thanks to Boris Johnson’s cowardice around journalists we now have the hashtag #fridgegate with less than 24 hours before the nation goes to the polls. A senior Tory source tells me that, outside the liberal metropolitan bubble, […]

Michael Gove has explained that the reason Boris Johnson put a reporter’s phone in his pocket when faced with a picture of a boy with flu is that the prime minister was ‘anxious to answer the question’. Gove was questioned on the moment that Boris Johnson was asked by a reporter to look at a […]

Pete Doherty has told cheering crowds at a Libertines concert that in this election, ‘don’t let it be the Tories’. The rock star made the comment after he returned for an encore for his concert in Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse, where fans had been chanting “oh, Jeremy Corbyn”. “In this twisted society we live in, […]

The family of Jack Merritt, who was killed in the London Bridge terror attack, has denied that they have received any condolences from Boris Johnson despite statements saying otherwise from No.10. Merritt’s father Dave accused the prime minister of using the attack as an “opportunity” after Johnson immediately called for tougher sentencing in its wake. […]

James Corden has delivered a pitch-perfect performance as Boris Johnson attempting to join in with ‘cool kids’ Macron and Trudeau at Nato. Nato leaders appeared to mock Donald Trump at a reception during the Nato summit in London. Picture: PA – Credit: PA Following the humiliating footage of world leaders gossiping about Donald Trump at […]

Third-placed Liberal Democrat and Labour candidates in 20 seats are being asked to halt campaigning in favour of the Remain-supporting candidate with the best chance of helping to prevent a Boris Johnson landslide. The last minute calls come from campaign group Vote for a Final Say as a new poll suggests a small group of […]

After Boris Johnson’s latest stunt, in which he drove a JCB through a wall labelled ‘gridlock’, Labour have made the perfect rejoinder. The prime minister drove the tractor marked ‘get Brexit done’ through the stack of polystyrene blocks to the astonishment of assembled press in a Staffordshire JCB factory. The unsubtle visual metaphor was seized […]

Business leaders have spoken out against Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal after new research shows a ‘flatlining’ economy soon after he took office. According to ONS figures, there has been zero growth of the economy between mid-August and mid-October this year – a performance that outspoken anti-Brexit businesswoman Deborah Meaden demonstrates a “flat and faltering economy”. […]

A Conservative candidate has been criticised by rights groups after he parked his Land Rover across not one but two parking spots clearly reserved for people with disabilities. 3) Dorset election candidate Richard Drax has described his decision to park across two disabled spaces as 'a moment of thoughtlessness which will never be repeated' https://t.co/CeFgIAgq1G […]

The three biggest Remain campaigns have agreed on the way they say Brexit could be blocked through tactical voting. The different voting websites of Best for Britain, People’s Vote and Remain United are agreed on anti-Brexit tactical voting suggestions for almost every marginal seat. With these recommendations they say as few as 40,704 tactical votes […]

Hugh Grant has noticed a highly ironic omission in the election campaign advert put out by the Conservatives that not only spoofs a film he starred in but which itself is ripped off a Remainer Labour MP. "One of the cards... Boris Johnson didn't hold up was the one saying "Because at Christmas you tell […]

The DUP leader ‘shouldn’t have championed Brexit’ if she had been truly concerned about the possibility of customs checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, said Sinn Fein’s president today. Mary Lou McDonald was speaking in reaction to the DUP’s Arlene Foster, who expressed her disappointment at Boris Johnson having broken his word to her […]

Brexit Party activists supporting party chair Richard Tice have been reportedly caught making racist and Islamophobic comments in the midst of the general election campaign for Hartlepool. An undercover Channel 4 News investigation claims to have exposed shocking comments such as one councillor, David Mincher, saying he once tried to bury a pig’s head under […]

The chair of a local Conservative association has been asked to stand down by her party after reports emerged that she had told a Muslim woman her headscarf was ‘offensive’. Former chair of the Tories’ Chipping Barnet wing, Fiona Bulmer, is said to have approached Sidrah Mohammed outside Asda in Southgate as part of general […]

Jo Swinson has been asked whether her refusal to work with Jeremy Corbyn is endangering the Remain cause in the service of her career. The Liberal Democrat leader said that she was open to working with people from all parties if it meant stopping Brexit, but reiterated her refusal to support putting Corbyn in power […]