General Election 2019

US drug companies are eyeing post-Brexit UK for a chance to raise prices, new documents have revealed, despite Donald Trump’s recent statement that he had no interest in the NHS even if it was handed to him ‘on a silver platter’. A document written by the US Chamber of Commerce and Coalition of Services Industries, […]

In this election young people can swing the result – and this time it is more important than ever. The stereotype of young people being politically indifferent and ambivalent undeniably holds some truth. But this general election, there is no time for complacency: young people must do what they can to protect their futures. There […]

Amid concern around the use of social media for political advertising, new research has found a connection between heavy Facebook use and people holding more polarised political views. The research found that the people who use Facebook heavily are 7.25 times more likely to visit far-right website Breitbart than the average Facebook user. Campaigners for […]

A video has been released showing how quickly Farage fans and undecided voters can change their minds when they are shown the Brexit Party leader’s past statements. In a vox pop, anti-far right campaigners Hope Not Hate approached people on the street in Barnsley and watched their views change, from either positive or noncommittal, as […]

The former chair of the Conservatives has suggested he would find it hard to vote for his own party in this election. Lord Chris Patten told the BBC that both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump share an “elastic relationship with the truth”, and accused either the prime minister or his aide Dominic Cummings of turning […]

A UKIP candidate was asked why the party should be taken seriously in the general election after having nine leaders in three years. LBC’s Iain Dale asked UKIP candidate for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, David Kurten, the bruising question during a phone-in. “Yeah, I’ll be honest with you, we haven’t had an easy time since […]

A former integration czar under four successive governments has said she would ‘probably not’ work for Boris Johnson, commenting on ‘this extreme politics that gets in the way of doing right’. Dame Louise Casey, who has headed up numerous community integration and social welfare task forces for successive governments, issued cutting remarks on the prime […]

Sweary? Want to track where the UK has agreed post-Brexit trade deals? There’s a website you might like. An expletive-ridden one-stop shop for trade deal watchers has been set up by the people behind the Twitter account @fuckingbrexit. The site, www.havewegotafuckingtradedealyet.com, aims to list every country in the world that the UK has a trade […]

Boris Johnson was the highest earning MP in the last parliament, trousering £800,000 on top of his MP’s salary, according to new calculations. In the last parliament British MPs earned £8.4 million on top of their salaries, according to data website Data Lobo, with 15 MPs earning more than half of that. Lobo has released […]

Sinn Fein has claimed their voice was being ‘loud and clear’ on the key issue ‘of a generation’ – despite not sitting in the House of Commons to vote. Mary Lou McDonald said it was the election of a generation due to the challenge posed to Northern Ireland by Brexit, but rejected criticism of her […]

A historian and writer has set the record straight on Brexiteer arguments that the UK has ever been ‘oppressed’ by European Union membership. The Conservatives have recently launched the new election slogan “set Britain free”, prompting Dr Helene von Bismarck to retweet her own response from a recent lecture. The slogan’s sentiment follows remarks from […]

UKIP’s interim leader was stumped on basic questions like where she is fielding candidates or details of the party’s immigration policy in a car-crash interview. Please do yourself a favour. Go to sky news on YouTube and rewind to Adam Boulton's interview with interim Ukip leader Pat Mountain about 20 minutes ago. It's glorious.— Mikey […]

Following a disastrous performance on Sky News, UKIP’s interim leader has used a manifesto launch to insist that they are not ‘seriously racist’. She told a press conference in Westminster: “Please give a good impression to the public that we’re not nasty racists. We are good, honest, caring people, all of us are. “I’ve never […]

A 2017 general election candidate for the Lib Dems has said he feels ‘guilty’ for running against a Labour candidate and allowing the Tories to ‘scrape in’. In 2017 the Conservatives beat Labour by just 500 votes while Hugh Lanham, the Liberal Democrat candidate, picked up 1,500 voters and the Greens got 800 votes. This […]

A Brexit Party candidate is taking carpetbagging to the next level by standing for the party with a registered address that is 14,500 miles away in Australia. Not content with giving us an MEP who lives in France, my constituency's Brexit Party general election candidate lives in Australia... pic.twitter.com/Xsgz9iMFo9— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) December 2, 2019 […]

Nigel Farage’s earlier speeches have come back to haunt him after he denied he has ever supported the privatisation of the NHS. Nigel Farage couldn't care less about you or your health, but has 1.4 million followersWe couldn't care more about you and your health, but have less than 500kPlease follow and RT to help […]

More Remain voters backing the Labour Party has helped to boost the opposition party in the polls in recent days. According to Survation the Conservative lead over Labour has dropped from 11% last week to 9%. The pollster partly credits change in support from Remain voters for the change, with the Labour Party seeing 10 […]

Voters answering the door in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency were greeted by a surprise canvasser on Sunday – actor Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant canvassing in Finchley while on the General Election campaign trail. Photograph: David Mirzoeff/PA Wire. – Credit: PA The Notting Hill star appeared alongside local Liberal Democrat candidate Luciana Berger, to […]

It was an opportunity for the major political parties to face the public and set out their vision, but who do you think performed the best? As we wait for verdicts from the pollsters we’re asking for readers to give their perspectives on tonight’s performances. Who do you think was the overall winner – was […]

Jo Swinson said she could not support Labour’s economic policies such as its plans to nationalise certain industries. She described the programme as a “distraction” and said the Labour Party had “not been clear about how they would pay for it”. She added she does not believe renationalisation is “the way forward”. Asked whether she […]

Donald Trump arrives in town this week – and a White House official has said he is looking forward to meeting Boris Johnson. The comments came as an official said Trump is “absolutely cognisant” of the importance of not interfering in other nations’ elections. Johnson has already warned Trump not to get involved in the […]

Boris Johnson has got his way and will be interviewed by Andrew Marr on Sunday, without having committed to a grilling from the BBC’s most ferocious interviewer Andrew Neil. The BBC had initially refused to invite the prime minister onto Marr’s show until he signed up to feature in a series of general election leader […]

The former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has hit out at his party’s flagship policy to revoke Article 50 if it wins a majority. Since Jo Swinson took over from Sir Vince in July, the party adopted a policy at conference to cancel Brexit without a second referendum from the moment it would take […]

David Attenborough has branded Boris Johnson ‘shameful’ for not attending Thursday’s televised climate change general election debate. The veteran broadcaster said that the prime minister must have had something “very, very important” in his diary to have been too busy for it. In an interview to be broadcast tonight on Channel 4 News, Attenborough said […]

It was an opportunity for the major political parties to face the public and set out their vision, but who do you think performed the best? As we wait for verdicts from the pollsters we’re asking for readers to give their perspectives on tonight’s performances. Who do you think was the overall winner – was […]

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In an attempt to defend his son from accusations of being a liar, Stanley Johnson has suggested that the ‘great British public’ does not have the degree of literacy to know who Pinocchio is. Appearing on BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show, the prime minister’s father responded to a viewer comment that Boris Johnson is like the […]

Readers express their concerns about the performance of Labour and Lib Dems during the election campaign so far. Labour are currently fighting what is being called ‘the Brexit election’ by trying their best not to mention Brexit. The only possible benefit of the inevitable large Tory majority which will soon follow is that the party […]

The BBC has stuck to its guns over Boris Johnson’s reticence to undergo an interview with Andrew Neil and has turned down No.10’s suggestion that he appear on Andrew Marr’s show instead. The national broadcaster announced earlier in the week that it had been “unable to fix a date” for the general election grilling from […]

LBC has clarified what happened on air after Boris Johnson made a hand gesture that sparked online speculation while he fielded calls from the public with host Nick Ferrari. The radio show, which is also filmed, shows the prime minister slicing his finger across his neck with a look of deep irritation as he struggles […]

The prime minister refused to apologise for misogynist and sexist comments he made about single mothers and the character of their children. He was challenged on this by a single mother from Oldham, where he was taking questions from the public. Ruth asked the prime minister about his Spectator columns from 1995, when he said […]

The prime minister was unable to say how many trade deals the UK has set up internationally for after the UK leaves the EU. A caller to Nick Ferrari’s LBC show, where Johnson was taking questions, was told by Johnson only: “We’ve got talks under way with many countries.” He said there were a number […]