General Election 2019

Jo Swinson has been criticised for saying without hesitation that she would be willing to use nuclear weapons as prime minister. Appearing on ITV’s Election Interview after the main debate, Swinson was asked if she would ever be prepared to use a nuclear weapon. Swinson did not hesitate to respond “yes”, with the interview praising […]

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued an appeal to voters and politicians to ‘honour the gift of truth’ during the general election campaign. The Most Rev Justin Welby and Dr John Sentamu said everyone had a duty to “speak accurately and challenge falsehoods” when engaging in political debate. In a joint pastoral letter […]

Nigel Farage has been told he should be ‘ashamed’ for his ‘breaking point’ poster more than three years after the EU referendum as he was told he had been dishonest with the public. Nigel Farage launching a new UKIP EU referendum poster campaign. Photograph: Phil Toscano/PA. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images Appearing on an election […]

The actor Ralf Little says he has been unable to access his Twitter account after he changed it to spoof the Conservative Party’s own attempts to pass itself off as a fact-checking service. A message from @RalfLittle: Just been logged out of my twitter account without explanation. Assume I've been suspended. Which is fine. But […]

The Conservative Party and Vote Leave have accepted far more donations from supporters of climate science denial than any other campaign, research has found. Over £5 million in donations from supporters of a prominent climate science campaign group has gone to Conservative MPs or the party HQ. Supporters of the same group, the Global Warming […]

Nigel Farage has said he has only ran for parliament once seriously – despite appearing on the ballot paper for Westminster seven times. The Brexit Party leader was responding to claims he was an “undemocratic leader” running the most undemocratic party in the UK and “refusing to run in a constituency” himself. He refuted the […]

Jeremy Corbyn has claimed the monarchy ‘needs a bit of improvement’ as the televised election debate moved on to the subject of the royal family and Prince Andrew. https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1196894380201635840 ITV’s Julie Etchingham quizzed the two prime ministerial hopefuls in light of questions over Andrew’s friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own […]

YouGov figures report the public is split nearly 50/50 in deciding who won the first TV election debate. It suggests the public is about as divided as they were three years ago when the UK voted to leave the EU, with 51% of respondents to a poll by YouGov saying that Boris Johnson performed best […]

The Tories have faced criticism after rebranding their Twitter as a fact-checking organistation during the ITV leaders’ debate. The Conservative Campaign Headquarters press office account was renamed factcheckUK during Tuesday evenings ITV debate. Photograph: Twitter/PA. – Credit: PA One of the UK’s most respected fact-checking organisation Full Fact has criticised the Conservatives for changing their […]

The prime minister was laughed at by an audience after claiming the truth was important to him during ITV’s party leaders election debate. Audible laughter from the audience when Boris Johnson says truth matters in the #ITVDebate. He's a pathological liar and the whole country knows it.— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) November 19, 2019 When asked […]

It was the first major debate of the general election and thousands used Twitter to discuss Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson’s performance. https://twitter.com/tarajaneoreilly/status/1196882821194944512 These are just some of the best reactions from social media. https://twitter.com/jonoread/status/1196882920771932160 https://twitter.com/Chrisballingall/status/1196865280959533057 https://twitter.com/Sathnam/status/1196883706813829120 https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1196884282507223041 https://twitter.com/mightybarnski/status/1196886566515462144 https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1196889467942047745 https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1196891135668637703 https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/1196893169880834048 https://twitter.com/Sathnam/status/1196893941049765888 https://twitter.com/cheesecakebase/status/1196893897147998208 https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1196893399363792896 https://twitter.com/ILamacq/status/1196894963457499136 https://twitter.com/joshminterr/status/1196895186347003906 https://twitter.com/LibDemPress/status/1196895661230305289

Boris Johnson could be replaced by a member of his cabinet in a highly-anticipated television debate. The prime minister looks set to get Rishi Sunak, the chief secretary to the Treasury, to represent him in one of the election campaign’s most major television debates. The 39-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker was an early backer of […]

A study has proven the suspicions of many pundits, demonstrating how British newspapers consistently report negative stories about opposition parties while heaping positive reports on the Conservatives. "a large proportion of newspaper items that featured Labour sources had a clearly negative slant" https://t.co/zSEWz3nPa0 pic.twitter.com/znb7hxUwQ8— JamieSW (@jsternweiner) November 18, 2019 Academics from Loughborough University examined the […]

The leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson has warned the public to be wary of sharing misinformation after a story went viral claiming she had abused squirrels. Doctored images claiming to show an article on the Mirror’s website were shared thousands of times across Twitter and Facebook last week, including by a number of […]

Boris Johnson has at least achieved something in the election campaign – he has dodged the dubious honour of being the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister. Tuesday November 19 marked the 119th day of Johnson’s premiership – the same number of days clocked up as prime minister by George Canning in 1827. Canning died in office […]

A candidate for the Conservative Party in a key marginal has said he will force problem tenants to live in tents and work in a field if he is elected. Lee Anderson, who is running in Ashfield, is hoping to overturn a tiny Labour majority of 441 at the constituency in Nottinghamshire. The seat is […]

A new poll has found a noticeable difference between Leave and Remain voters on whether or not to believe Prince Andrew’s explanation around his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York was grilled in a now infamous Newsnight interview in which he addressed claims that he slept with a 17-year-old girl at the convicted […]

A Brexit Party candidate in Reading has reportedly had milkshake thrown at him during the election campaign. A milkshake attack in Reading today whilst campaigning for @brexitparty_uk #rdguk Candidate for #Parliament @PlanetPonzi pic.twitter.com/EODCNbMdpi— Teresa Fahy (@Tessacan61) November 17, 2019 The Reading Chronicle reports that Mitchell Feierstein, the candidate for Reading East, was handing out pro-Brexit […]

A ‘furious’ caller corrected Conservative candidate Damian Green over a number of Boris Johnson’s ‘lies’ about facts and figures. Calling into LBC’s Eddie Mair show the caller, named Mark, started by criticising the Conservative pledge in 2015 to build 200,000 starter homes. He said: “The ONS has just reported you’ve built 200,000 starter homes – […]

Polling from YouGov has put Jeremy Corbyn ahead as the most favoured candidate to be prime minister among Remain voters. Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson with Lib Dem candidate for St Albans Daisy Cooper in St Albans whilst on the General Election campaign trail. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire – Credit: PA It follows concerns that […]

A compilation of clips of Boris Johnson being heckled has been updated due to a seemingly inexhaustible supply of content. When Dominic Cummings told a BBC reporter to “get out of London and talk to people who are not rich Remainers”, he may not have anticipated what would happen when the prime minister took this […]

The founder of the Brexit Party has claimed that the organisation will fail to win a single seat at the general election. Catherine Blaiklock, who was ousted from her post as leader following revelations of a series of racist tweets, said that the chances of Nigel Farage’s organisation winning a seat look unlikely. She told […]

There was mixed messaging from Brexit Party Nigel Farage’s latest Twitter post when he told Leavers not to ‘waste their vote’. https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1196458178214612998 Nigel Farage tweeted: “Don’t waste your vote” and attached a graphic which said “there are around 130 seats the Tories haven’t won in at least 50 years”. But the message left Twitter users, […]

A Brexit Party MEP has quit over another candidate’s homophobic comments, saying his personal values ‘are now in direct conflict with those of the party’. The Scotland MEP Louis Stedman-Bryce announced on Twitter that he was leaving the party because of homophobic comments posted by former parliamentary candidate Victor Robert Farrell. The Brexit Party has […]

A former Brexiteer and Conservative political commentator has claimed the media is to blame for letting Boris Johnson get away ‘with deceit with such ease’ and that BBC executives are complicit in this. Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph’s former chief political commentator, was a staunch Brexiteer and long-time supporter of the Conservatives – but now […]

A People’s Vote, a new voting system, and an investment of £100 billion a year to tackle climate change will be in the Green Party manifesto for the general election. The party will also include legislation for a “Green new deal”, intended to set Britain on track to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by […]

In the bid to try and encourage people to vote one Remain campaigner has gone the extra mile to get their attention. https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1196081539496448000 Femi Oluwole, the Our Future Our Choice campaigner, dropped his trousers and removed one of his trademark t-shirts in the pouring rain to talk about the importance of registering to vote in […]

Former prime minister Gordon Brown is set to warn it will take more than an election to end divisions in the UK – and it could take a generation. In a speech he will say that the country’s “bitter divisions are now not just over Brexit, but between north and south, rich and poor and […]

he broadcasters have announced a series of debates, including two head-to-heads after reaching an agreement between the Tories and Labour, a three-way debate and a seven-way debate. The first will involve a head-to-head debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn and will air on ITV on Tuesday at 8pm. On Friday 22 November, Fiona Bruce […]

The Brexit Party has disowned a candidate in Scotland who declared ‘war’ on the LGBTQ community. Look at the state of the @brexitparty_uk candidate standing in Glenrothes - crusading against lesbians, rampant youths and all those without god in their lives. @courier_fife @GlenrothesGaz @KingdomFMNews pic.twitter.com/U7A9QTV74p— Jenny Gilruth (@JennyGilruth) November 18, 2019 The candidate claimed the […]

A high court has ruled that ITV’s decision to exclude the Liberal Democrats and SNP from their leaders’ debate on Tuesday was lawful and that the broadcaster can go ahead with putting the show on as planned. ITV had planned to hold a head-to-head debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday night. The […]

A former Conservative minister had made a large, undisclosed donation to the Liberal Democrats as fears mount within the Tory ranks that Boris Johnson could take the UK out of the EU without a trade deal. Timothy Sainsbury, a former trade minister under Margaret Thatcher and the youngest son of Lord Sainsbury who founded the […]