What time will the UK election exit poll come out? December 12, 2019 Voters across the country are heading to polling stations today before tonight’s exit poll is expected to show which way the General Election will go. The Conservatives remain ahead in opinion polls but their lead has narrowed recently, with predictions ranging from a hung parliament to a convincing Tory majority. Read more: In pictures: Dogs [...]
General election 2019: Tory lead over Labour shrinks in latest poll December 12, 2019 A shock last minute poll has given the Conservatives their smallest lead of the 2019 election campaign. A Savanta ComRes poll for The Telegraph has the Tories on 41 per cent and Labour on 36 per cent. Read more: General Election: Moment of truth for Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn The polling means the outcome [...]
General Election: Moment of truth for Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn December 12, 2019 Six long weeks on the campaign trail finally come to to an end today as Britons head to the polls for their third General Election in four years. The polls have now opened and will close throughout the entire nation at 10pm, with counting to start immediately. Read more: Poll predicts a Tory majority of [...]
Your guide to the General Election: Everything you need to know December 12, 2019 It’s one of the messiest elections in living memory – but there are a few certainties you can count on. Here is our guide to everything you need to know before you vote. How many seats are available? The UK has 650 parliamentary seats up for grabs, which means 326 are required for an outright [...]
The chaos of Brexit is nothing compared to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn December 12, 2019 Every election is important, but some elections are indisputably more important than others. In the British context, the clearest examples of the past century have been 1945 and 1979. In both cases, the electorate decisively rejected the pre-election consensus that had held sway for an entire epoch. In 1945, Labour’s New Jerusalem and capture of [...]
Bees. Fridges. Secret tapes. That was the election that was. December 12, 2019 Elections, so the common wisdom goes, are won by smart political positioning, uniting figures and a well-thought-through ground game. Debate performances that change the dial, soaring speeches that speak to a country yearning for inspiration, the public coming together behind that single candidate who… Well, yes, we may have to revisit that — for despite [...]
DEBATE: Could tactical voting actually make a difference to the result of this election? December 12, 2019 Could tactical voting actually make a difference to the result of this election? Joe Twyman, co-founder and director of Deltapoll and a presenter of the Polling Politics Podcast, says YES. In first past the post elections, the difference between winning and losing a majority can be small. Really small. Back in 2017, the difference between [...]
Championing Britain’s economy means protecting our links with the EU — regardless of Brexit December 12, 2019 As polling stations up and down the country open this morning, Europe-centric businesses like mine are asking what they will have to deal with after the votes have been counted. My company is part of a group which employs over 300 people of multiple nationalities — many of them are EU nationals, but some are [...]
Election 2019: Boris Johnson urges voters to make UK ‘Corbyn-neutral by Christmas’ December 11, 2019 Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn ended their five-week election campaigns in east London, returning to the capital after touring much of the country. Johnson held a Donald Trump-style rally, with around 3,000 supporters in Stratford’s Copper Box stadium, where heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua took home gold during the London 2012 Olympics, where he tapped into [...]
Election 2019: Sterling rises as traders await vote December 11, 2019 Sterling has risen against the dollar ahead of tomorrow’s General Election, recovering the ground it lost yesterday after a closely-watched poll halved the Conservative party’s expected majority. The rise continues the growth spurt sterling has been through since the start of December, which has been driven by polls predicting a Tory election victory. Traders by [...]