General Election 2019

Boris Johnson has been confronted with a picture of a little boy forced to sleep on a hospital floor – but was so keen not to face up to the image of the child he slipped the reporter’s phone into his pocket. The prime minister admitted he had not seen the now-infamous picture of four-year-old […]

Boris Johnson was unable to explain the basis for alarming claims by Priti Patel that a Labour government would lead to 52 more murders a year, prompting his interviewer to say: ‘She made them up, hasn’t she?’ Speaking on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show, Johnson was reminded of his home secretary’s claim in the Daily Telegraph […]

Arlene Foster had harsh words for Boris Johnson for breaking his promise over protecting the integrity of the union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party said that government officials had told her there would need to be customs checks between the two, despite the prime minister’s continued public […]

Spoof TV news reporter Jonathan Pie has urged viewers to vote tactically in a video attack on Boris Johnson that could strip paint. After recording a conventional news report outside Westminster, the camera keeps rolling and Pie launches into a direct-to-camera tirade against Johnson’s record in government. Having reported to news viewers with a straight […]

Labour-backing actor and comedian Steve Coogan has joined the Lib Dems on the campaign trail to tell people to ‘vote smart and box clever’ to keep the Conservatives out of power. The Alan Partridge star took to the streets in his local constituency of Lewes in East Sussex with Lib Dem candidate Oliver Henman to […]

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A Conservative general election candidate was greeted with cries of ‘disgrace!’ after he said that food bank users struggle at ‘managing their budget’. Tory candidate Darren Henry said at a hustings in Broxtowe on Friday: “It’s about having budgeting for when they go down to the food bank. “What they struggle with is maybe being […]

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said he doesn’t trust Tory leader Boris Johnson. Farage was visiting Tolley Fabrications in Sedgefield, County Durham, when he was asked by PA who he trusts out of Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn. Laughing, he replied: “Do you know something, that’s the most difficult question I’ve been asked. “I’ve […]

Lord Buckethead – the joke candidate who stood against Theresa May at the last election – is calling on ‘so called novelty candidates’ to encourage tactical voting. Buckethead, who is standing as Count Binface in Boris Johnson’s constituency, said there were “there are some things more important than electing an intergalactic space lord to parliament”. […]

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are set to go head-to-head for their second and final televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. – Who is presenting it? radio 4 Today programme regular and former BBC political editor Nick Robinson will be the moderator, putting questions and keeping order. – Where will the leaders stand? […]

After Michael Gove said EU nationals should not get a vote in a second referendum, Jo Swinson has said it would be the democratic thing do to. The Liberal Democrat leader rejected claims that doing this would move the goalposts politically, after Michael Gove compared it to fielding an extra player on a rugby team. […]

What’s your take on the key events of the week and how they affect Brexit and the election? Take a look at our poll and tell us who caused a buzz – and who got stung. – Got other views? Write to letters@theneweuropean.co.uk

The co-founder of the Brexit Party, Catherine Blaiklock, has said that the party is now ‘finished’. Catherine Blaiklock, who co-founded the party earlier this year with Nigel Farage, agreed when LBC host Tom Swarbrick asked her if it was all over. Farage’s party has lost several high-profile candidates throughout the election, with one citing homophobic […]

After Boris Johnson reportedly confirmed he will not be doing the Andrew Neil interview, Michael Gove asked listeners to call the Downing Street office if they want to know why he isn’t doing it. Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Gove was challenged on why the prime minister is ducking one of the fiercest interviewers, […]

Michael Gove has compared giving EU citizens the right to vote in a second referendum to fielding extra rugby players in a match. Gove, whose Vote Leave organisation was found to have broken electoral law during the 2016 referendum, said the move would go against a “principle of democratic fairness”. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s […]

James O’Brien has stepped in with an excellent point after a social media furore exploded over a disputed subtitle in which Boris Johnson was quoted as referring to ‘people of colour’. The clip in question was shared by Channel 4 News and subtitled Boris Johnson as saying to a crowd of supporters that he is […]

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to strip the Home Office of responsibility for immigration and asylum if they win the election. Labelling the department as “not fit for purpose” after scandals such as Windrush, the party said it would move policymaking on visas, international students and asylum elsewhere on Whitehall. A “non-political agency” would be […]

The Economist has decided to back the Liberal Democrats in the general election. The publication said that while Labour is attempting to solve 21st-century problems with 20th-century hard left solutions, the Tories have become a party of extremes, particularly on Brexit. The Economist’s statement recognised the unlikelihood of the party winning the election, but made […]

With the UK set to turn out to polling booths in their millions on December 12, we wanted to find out how you will be voting. The latest polls suggest the Conservatives are on track to receive the greatest number of votes, however, there is not a huge amount in it, and the impact of […]

There has been an online backlash after Boris Johnson visited an upmarket knitwear company and received a scarf emblazoned with ‘get Brexit done’. Boris Johnson apparently made this 'Get Brexit Done' scarf at the John Smedley factory today (the oldest continuous textile factory in the world) pic.twitter.com/MSvILxcJkt— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) December 5, 2019 The prime […]

The phone that Boris Johnson used for his selfie with This Morning presenters was a Huawei device, despite ongoing security concerns around the Chinese company. Following his interview with ITV’s Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, the Press Association has reported that the prime minister used what looks like a Huawei P20 for the photo op. […]

Annunziata Rees-Mogg has explained that she quit the Brexit Party because it is allowing a ‘Remain coalition’ to damage the Brexit cause. The MEP gave her reasons for stepping down along with three other high-profile party members at a press conference in which she said it is “tragic” that the Brexit Party could be the […]

Viral campaigners Led By Donkeys are setting up an initiative to counter the Conservatives’ planned onslaught of Facebook advertising during the last 10 days of the election. After the Tories unleashed more than 2,600 adverts onto Facebook in just 24 hours earlier this week, the guerrilla campaigners want to counter the splurge. While it is […]

WILLIAM TOBIN on why he’s standing against Boris Johnson – but doesn’t want you to vote for him. I’m standing as a parliamentary candidate in Boris Johnson’s constituency. I have a single purpose – to highlight the unfairness of UK elections and referendums which exclude seven million of us: – The three million Brits living […]

Boris Johnson appears in a new video setting his words to the MC Hammer anthem ‘U can’t touch this’. The viral comedy account Cassetteboy updates the 1980s hit with wording far more appropriate to the prime minister, who instead says: “You can’t trust me.” The catchy video, clipped from hundreds of Johnson’s speeches, has nonetheless […]

Who is on Question Time tonight and where do they stand on Brexit? Here’s your guide… The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme tonight comes from Hull, hometown of both Maureen Lipman and Norman Collier. But who thinks if you’ve got an ology you’re a scientist, and who will wish they had a faulty microphone? Here’s […]

Jo Swinson has said she will support legislation for a People’s Vote under ‘any other government’. During her grilling from BBC’s Andrew Neil, she was asked if she would prop up a Corbyn-led government for six months in order to give enough time for a new Brexit referendum. She answered firstly by saying neither Corbyn […]

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has apologised for the welfare cuts her party backed when it was in power with the Conservatives. Swinson said that “too much” was cut in the years of the coalition government, during which she was a minister. She told BBC One’s Andrew Neil: “Clearly too much was cut. Clearly not […]

Boris Johnson is way out in front of other leaders when it comes to fake Twitter followers, a new analysis has revealed. Thirty-four per cent of the prime minister’s 1.25 million Twitter followers were found to be fake accounts or bots – the highest of a current party leader out of all the main UK […]

Environmental activists dressed as bees have invaded a Brexit Party constituency office before lying on the floor and buzzing in protest. The swarm of protesters, who call themselves Bee-yond Politics, followed similar tactics as Extinction Rebellion campaigners also dressed as bees, who glued themselves to the Liberal Democrats’ electric campaign bus earlier today. The move […]

A Brexit Party MEP who previously complained about being disenfranchised after Nigel Farage withdrew 317 candidates has now said that standing them down was the party’s way of ‘standing our ground’. Alex Phillips, Brexiteer MEP for the South East, responded to the accusation that her leader had “bottled it” and bowed to rightwing pressure to […]

Burger King has mocked Vote Leave’s campaign bus during the EU referendum which claimed that the British sends £350 million a week to the EU. The now-notorious Vote Leave bus pictured ahead of its journey across Britain. Vote Leave has since been fined £61,000 for breaking electoral law over spending limits. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive […]