General Election 2019

The BBC has told the Tories to remove online adverts which use edited versions of its content, claiming it was ‘completely unacceptable’ to ‘distort’ its output. An edited clip of BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg saying “pointless delay to Brexit” edited by the Tories for Facebook advertising. Photograph: PA/Conservatives. – Credit: PA One of the […]

The Labour Party has compiled a list of 60 questions it says Boris Johnson must answer. The party has accused the prime minister of “hiding from scrutiny” after he snubbed the Channel 4 leaders’ debate on climate change and is yet to sign up to an interview with Andrew Neil. The questions are on a […]

Labour has accused the prime minister of ‘trying to restrict the free press’ by threatening Channel 4 after it empty-chaired him with a block of ice. A Tory source suggested the party may review Channel 4’s public service broadcasting position after it replaced the PM with an ice sculpture when he refused to take part […]

A teacher has hit out at a Tory minister over the party’s pledge for 50,000 more nurses in the NHS, claiming that even his eight-year-old could see through the lie. Brandon Lewis appeared on Question Time to defend the Conservative Party pledge in its manifesto, but faced fierce criticism from the audience. To laughter, one […]

The Lib Dems have calculated that 6,000 criminal could evade justice if Boris Johnson’s plans for Brexit goes ahead. UK police forces and prosecutors have used the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) to bring over 6,600 criminal fugitives to justice over the past five years, the analysis for the party reveals. This includes 140 for murder […]

Jo Swinson has opened up about her late father in an interview, describing how his memory drives her on as she campaigns in the general election. In an ITV interview set to be broadcast in full this evening, the Liberal Democrat leader had to pause and take a breath when her father Peter, who passed […]

A Conservative candidate has insisted a vote for him was still valid despite his name being spelled incorrectly on the ballot papers. Jack Gebhard’s middle name of Alexander was missing an ‘N’ when his nomination papers were submitted for him to stand in Wansbeck, Northumberland, against the Labour chairman Ian Lavery. The town councillor in […]

Musician Martin Kemp says he fears for young people growing up in the current political crisis surrounding Brexit. Appearing on the Jeremy Vine on 5 programme Kemp was asked about what he thought of Jeremy Corbyn’s warning that the NHS was now up for sale in a post-Brexit trade deal with America. He hit out […]

Several Conservative general election candidates appear to be following Boris Johnson’s lead on environmental issues and are not attending climate change-themed hustings nationwide. The prime minister has received much criticism for deciding not to take part in Channel 4 News’ climate change-themed general election debate. But campaigning media organisation DeSmog have found that at least […]

Nigel Farage has posted a tweet aimed at making fun of Jeremy Corbyn, but has ended up the butt of the joke instead. Disappointing choice. Past its best, now leaves a bitter taste. pic.twitter.com/1RKIxwX21y— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) November 27, 2019 The Brexit Party leader posted a picture of himself holding up a bottle of wine […]

Neither the Conservatives nor Labour is being honest with the electorate or are offering a ‘properly credible prospectus’ in their general election manifesto spending plans, a leading economic think tank has said. “Neither Labour nor the Conservatives is being honest with the electorate,” said Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) director Paul Johnson at a presentation. […]

Channel 4 is to host a climate change debate this evening which will focus on how party leaders will tackle one of the key issues for voters in the general election. But Boris Johnson and the Brexit Party’s Nigel Farage look set to snub the hour-long Emergency On Planet Earth debate. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, […]

YouGov’s MRP modelling has suggested that politicians that defected to the Liberal Democrats could lose their seats in the general election. The analysis highlighted four former Conservatives said to be trailing in their respective constituencies – Sarah Wollaston, who is 19 points behind in Totnes, Antoinette Sandbach who is trailing by 33 points in Eddisbury, […]

A raft of misogynistic and sexist comments by Boris Johnson have come to light, adding to the prime minister’s reputation of being contemptuous of women. In a series of articles written for the hard-right Spectator magazine, Johnson attacked single mothers and unmarried women and suggested they should be taken control of. Johnson described children of […]

Health secretary Matt Hancock became the latest Conservative minister to give an agonising performance as he tried to explain how the Tories would introduce 50,000 nurses into the NHS. The Tories have been criticised throughout the week for the pledge, which mostly appears to revolve around trying to convince the nurses to stay working for […]

A Conservative general election candidate has been accused of racially abusing his Labour competitor at a hustings last night. Labour supporters have demanded former Tory defence minister Philip Dunne step down after he told Labour’s Kuldip Sahota “he’s talking through his turban”. Sahota, who is challenging the seat of Ludlow that Dunne has held for […]

Much-anticipated polling analysis from YouGov, which most accurately predicted the outcome of the last general election, predicts Boris Johnson could win a majority. YouGov’s multilevel regression and post-stratification poll is commonly known in the industry as ‘MRP’ and seeks to predict the outcome of Britain’s general election on December 12. The MRP polling attempts to […]

A much-anticipated poll from YouGov, which most accurately predicted the outcome of the last general election, predicts Boris Johnson will fall short of a majority. YouGov’s multilevel regression and post-stratification poll is commonly known in the industry as ‘MRP’ and seeks to predict the outcome of Britain’s general election on December 12. The MRP polling […]

A Tory minister has been accused of avoiding the ‘searchlight’ of scrutiny on his party’s problem with Islamophobia, and was compared to the Labour leader for its milquetoast response to the issue. Justice secretary Robert Buckland was confronted on BBC’s Andrew Neil show with examples of egregious prejudice towards Muslims by Conservative party figures, both […]

Former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine is urging people to vote either Lib Dem or ex-Tory MPs standing as independents in the general election. At a Lib Dem press conference in central London Heseltine made an impassioned case for Britain’s place in Europe, and of immigration to the UK. He lambasted the Tory party’s campaign […]

Hugh Grant has announced he plans to head out ‘on the stump’ with Dominic Grieve and will be supporting a ‘dolly mixture’ of candidates in a tactical voting drive. I am pleased and privileged to have your support and look forward to seeing you - DG— Dominic Grieve for Beaconsfield (@DominicGrieve1) November 27, 2019 The […]

A former leader of the miners’ struggle has spoken out on how Brexit has turned sour for him, saying it puts the UK ‘into the arms of Donald Trump’. Ken Capstick, former vice president of the Yorkshire National Union of Miners has said in a candid interview that his criticisms of the EU led him […]

New data from pro-EU campaign Best for Britain shows that the Conservatives could win up to 366 seats unless the electorate gets out and votes tactically, say the group. Their analysis of 39,476 voters using multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) found that this predicted majority depended on the Tories holding onto and gaining a “significant […]

A newspaper group has accused the Lib Dems of trying to pass the publication off as one of his group’s newspapers in the same area it circulates the Basingstoke Gazette. Newsquest editorial director Toby Granville said he would advise editors in the organisation not to publish campaign news for the Lib Dems unless the leaflet […]

After Boris Johnson decided to send a stand-in to the BBC’s seven-way election debate on Friday, Jeremy Corbyn has opted to do the same thing In their place will be chief secretary to the treasury, Rishi Sunak, for the Tories, and shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey for Labour. WATCH: Boris Johnson’s debate stand-in asked: ‘What’s […]

Comedian Russell Howard has taken on one of Matt Hancock’s general election video tweets, and won. It seems like the would-be Tory health and social care minister just can’t catch a break with his attempts to crack relatable social media. His latest video, in which he discusses the Tory manifesto’s aims for the NHS, has […]

Boris Johnson could be ’empty-chaired’ during a television debate after he has so far refused to confirm attendance. Boris Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage have yet to confirm attendance for an hour-long Emergency On Planet Earth debate on Channel 4 News, which will focus solely on climate change. The broadcaster said the debate […]

A general election candidate was booed by a hustings audience when he named the wrong constituency in his campaign speech. The Courier will be asking Mr Nicolson about this today but I can't guarantee he won't send the response to the Kirkintilloch Herald https://t.co/ZP0mmM8ovc— David Clegg (@davieclegg) November 27, 2019 The SNP’s John Nicolson did […]

Jo Swinson has won a court case stopping the SNP distributing a leaflet which it claimed exposed the ‘hypocrisy’ of the Lib Dem leader. The SNP’s leaflet, produced for rival in East Dunbartonshire Amy Callaghan, claimed that £14,000 donation from a “fracking company”. But lawyers acting on behalf of the Lib Dem leader said the […]

A record-breaking number have applied to register to vote on the deadline day. A total of 659,666 people applied to register to vote on the day of the deadline to take part in the general election. It is the largest volume of applications submitted in a single day since registration data was first published in […]

The Lib Dems have increased pressure on Boris Johnson and the Tories after concerns that the party could work with their former coalition allies again once the votes are counted. A new Lib Dem poster criticises Boris Johnson. Photograph: Lib Dems. – Credit: Archant New general election posters from the anti-Brexit party accuse the prime […]

Boris Johnson’s chancellor Sajid Javid has refused to criticise the prime minister for his use of language to describe Muslim women. Speaking on the campaign trail, Javid struggled to explain Boris Johnson’s use of words like “letterboxes” and “bank robbers” to describe Muslim women wearing a veil, which he wrote in a column for The […]