General Election 2019

Nigel Farage has hit back at allegations from Labour that US president Donald Trump is pulling the strings in the UK general election. The Brexit Party leader was appearing on BBC Breakfast when he was asked if Donald Trump had told him to work with Boris Johnson, as the president had previously suggested in his […]

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called on the Tories to stand aside in Labour-held seats to try to get more pro-Brexit MPs elected. The Brexit Party had been under pressure not to field candidates in Labour marginals after he abandoned plans to contest those held by the Tories at the last election. Farage said […]

Calls for Labour and the united Remain parties to form an alliance are mounting from candidates, political organisations, and pundits across party divides. This is a critical moment for Jo Swinson. Does she want to continue splitting the Remain vote for a dozen extra seats, or work with Corbyn to prevent a hard Brexit backed […]

MEP Alexandra Phillips has said she has been ‘disenfranchised by my own party’ and will not be voting in the election now that there is no Brexit Party candidate in her constituency. She said that “the choice is taken away from me” after party leader Farage stood down 317 candidates over fears of splitting the […]

A senior Tory has finally apologised for its party’s use of a doctored video featuring Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer talking about Brexit. Treasury chief secretary Rishi Sunak admitted Tory HQ had gone “a bit too far” and that there were “lessons to be learned”. He appeared on Good Morning Britain the Tory managed to do […]

Caroline Lucas has launched a foul-mouthed denunciation of the Liberal Democrats for their policy of stopping Brexit without a second referendum, in a sign of tensions in the Remain alliance. The former leader of the Green Party criticised the Lib Dems’ policy of revoking Article 50, saying: “If you wanted to send a message to […]

Brexit could mean that the environment is the biggest loser of the forthcoming general election. KIERRA BOX from Friends of the Earth urges parties to prioritise environmental safeguards over a speedy exit from the EU. Contests have winners and losers but in an election contest, losing affects a great many people. Despite the recent ambitious […]

An ex-Brexit Party candidate who was dropped from his position said he is considering requesting back his £100 entry fee paid to be considered as a candidate. Calling into James O’Brien’s morning show shortly after Nigel Farage announced that the Brexit Party would not be standing candidates in constituencies currently held by Conservatives, a former […]

Nigel Farage has denied that an offer of a peerage 48 hours before he dropped candidates in every Conservative seat was an influential factor in his decision. “Lord Farage” started to trend on Twitter after the Brexit Party leader confirmed that he had been offered an honour by the Tories. Speaking to the Mirror on […]

Boris Johnson has broken his booze ban for a second time on the election trail. As previously reported, the prime minister had claimed he would not drink until Brexit is sorted – with the first phase of the UK’s withdrawal set for January 31. But he failed to show restraint and maintain his “do or […]

UKIP has claimed it will not field a full list of candidates in the general election – not because of claims it is low on support – but because it now backs Boris Johnson’s deal. UKIP’s Richard Braine. Photo: ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images) – Credit: AFP via Getty Images In a tweet from the […]

A YouGov pollster has said Nigel Farage’s decision not to stand in 317 Conservative seats will only hurt the Conservative party. Hate to burst everybody's bubble, but I'm not sure this makes much difference at all. On current polling, the most important seats are the Labour held marginals, which aren't affected by this announcement. https://t.co/wF3nIUQQDQ— […]

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is encouraging Muslim voters to vote Conservative, despite admitting there is a ‘serious, substantial and widespread’ issue with Islamophobia in the Conservative party. Baroness Warsi: Islamophobia is an issue in the Conservative PartyEmma Barnett: Should Muslims still vote Conservative?Baroness Warsi: Labour have issues tooAnother example of why the car crash that is […]

The People’s Vote campaign is to target 100 seats that can deliver a final say referendum with a pledge to spend £100,000 on pro-People’s Vote candidates. On their new website launched on Saturday, the campaign advises users on tactical voting in key seats across the country recommending which candidate to vote for to avoid a […]

A Brexiteer has used a radio phone-in show to claim that we are a ‘dictatorship’ – and tactical voting guides is evidence of this. Keith was branded an “idiot” by LBC Radio host Iain Dale when he called into his programme to make the claims to Gina Miller, who has just launched a tactical voting […]

Two broadcasters have been criticised for their ‘desperate’ and ‘needless’ questioning of Jeremy Corbyn’s nuclear weapons policy on Armistice Day. 'Would you press the button to kill millions?' is the is trite question usually obsessed over by people who have spent too much time playing call of duty. If a nuclear war starts, all of […]

A former chair of the Conservative Party in a key marginal constituency has urged people to vote Labour to stop Boris Johnson gaining a majority for Brexit. Dr Jason Aldiss resigned from his post as chair of the Pudsey Conservative Association shortly after Boris Johnson was elected as prime minister in July. He said that […]

A majority of Remainers and Brexiteers would be prepared to see Northern Ireland leave the Union in order to achieve their preferred Brexit outcome, a survey has found. Around four in 10 Britons said they cared little or not at all about the region. Unionists in Belfast are opposed to prime minister Boris Johnson’s proposed […]

Nigel Farage has said the Brexit Party will not contest the 317 seats won by the Conservatives at the last general election. Speaking to supporters in Hartlepool the politician said he had taken the decision because he feared that if they had run it would have led to a hung parliament with significant gains for […]

After claiming that Labour’s manifesto promises will cast taxpayers £1.2 trillion, the business minister would not give an equivalent figure for his own party. Kwasi Karteng said he won’t “bandy around figures” when he was asked what the Conservatives’ spending promises add up to. The Tories’ claimed figure for Labour, which took up the front […]

The leader of the Brexit party has decided not to show up to a scheduled interview after the rightwing paper the Daily Mail used its front page to beg: ‘Stand down, Nigel!’ Unfortunately @Nigel_Farage has pulled out of tomorrow's @RidgeOnSunday.So we will be having @theSNP's Westminster leader @IBlackfordSNP and @LibDems @SamGyimah on the show. @SkyNews? […]

Independent candidate Dominic Grieve has told his supporters not to donate any more money to his general election campaign fund – as he has already raised more than enough. The former Tory, who was ‘purged’ from Boris Johnson’s party for voting to prevent a no-deal Brexit, told the Evening Standard that he has already raised […]

A Welsh Conservative candidate has faced online ridicule for a tweet he posted which showed the ‘mood to get Brexit done on the streets of Carmarthenshire’ – only no-one was there. Harvard Hughes’ original tweet, showing the ‘mood to get Brexit done’ in Carmarthenshire. Photo: Twitter – Credit: Archant Harvard Hughes was a Conservative candidate […]

Social media network Facebook has admitted it cannot track all of the political adverts that appear on its platform. In a conference call with journalists ahead of the general election, Facebook said it was better prepared than ever for dealing with misinformation and had set up a special operations centre where staff would work to […]

The Conservative candidate for Broadland Nick Conrad has announced he is standing down over ‘ill-judged comments’ during a radio discussion about a rape case. Nick Conrad, 34, had received the backing of the local party on Wednesday to run for the seat held by Tory Keith Simpson, who has stepped down after 22 years as […]

The leader of the Brexit Party has reacted to the latest front cover of The New European, which called him ‘Remain’s secret weapon’. Our article centred on claims that the Brexit Party could undermine the Leave campaign, taking vital votes away from Boris Johnson by “shouting ‘betrayal'” and “claiming Johnson’s deal is yet another variant […]

The Green Party in Northern Ireland has joined an informal Remain alliance in Belfast to help the anti-Brexit cause. The party will not stand in any of the city’s four constituencies in order to clear the way for other pro-European candidates.The move follows an earlier agreement between Sinn Fein and the SDLP, which has seen […]

A Liberal Democrat candidate asked to stand aside as part of a pro-Remain election pact has vowed to run as an independent and has claimed that members of his party are ‘extremely unhappy’ about how the deal was struck. Mike Powell, who intended to stand in Pontypridd as a Lib Dem candidate, said he was […]

A Conservative candidate has become stuck trying to defend Boris Johnson’s misleading claim that he is funding 40 new hospitals – shortly after saying she agreed the NHS should not be weaponsied. LBC host and political commentator, Iain Dale, called out Conservative candidate for Chichester, Gillian Keegan, after she agreed with Chris Hopson on NHS […]

The pro-Leave parties may be about to unite in their own pact to rival the organisation of the pro-Remain alliance. The Lib Dems, Greens, and Plaid have done a deal to give each other a free run in 60 seats. The Remainers are getting organised, so why aren't Boris and Nigel?Brexiteers DEMAND a pact! Sign […]

Brexit is the key factor for the majority of students who are prepared to vote tactically, new analysis has found. According to a poll of 1,000 students by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), more than half of all students will vote in a way “to maximise the chances of their side of the Brexit […]

In just three days, a petition calling on the government to release a report on alleged Russian interference in British politics has hit nearly 150,000 signatures. The report produced by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has been through all stages of approval from intelligence agencies and now only awaits the prime minister’s approval for […]