Peter Mandelson resigns from People’s Vote campaign November 12, 2019 Labour peer and ex-Tony Blair strategist Lord Peter Mandelson has quit the People’s Vote campaign. Mandelson and former Labour staffers Will Straw and Joe Carberry resigned from the board of Open Britain today, claiming that defacto chairman and PR tycoon Roland Rudd was about to push them out. Read more: People’s Vote staff reject new director [...]
Labour suffers second cyber attack in 24 hours November 12, 2019 Labour has been hit by a second cyber attack in two days, after hackers reportedly targeted the party’s web services this afternoon. Hackers tried to force its web services offline from around 1pm today, according to a Labour source. Read more: Labour experiences a ‘sophisticated and very large’ cyber attack A Labour spokesperson said: “We [...]
General Election 2019: Watch Boris Johnson urge voters to back Jeremy Corbyn in deep fake video November 12, 2019 Videos of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn apparently endorsing each other have been circulated online, in a bid to highlight the growing risk of misinformation. Voters are being warned not to trust what they read online, as increasingly sophisticated technology allows producers to create convincing deep fake videos. The videos, which were published online today, [...]
General Election: New poll extends the Conservatives’ lead over Labour November 12, 2019 The Conservative party’s lead over Labour and the Liberal Democrats has grown, according to the latest polling. A Britain Elects poll released this morning shows the Tories moving up one point to 39 per cent, while Labour and the Liberal Democrats remain stable at 31 and 15 per cent respectively. Bookmakers have the Conservatives as [...]
Labour experiences a ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack November 12, 2019 Labour has said it has been the victim of a “sophisticated and large scale cyber attack” on its digital platforms. However, a spokesperson for the party said the attempt had failed and there was no data breach. Read more: Hillary Clinton slams ‘shameful’ decision to delay Russian interference report “We took swift action and these [...]
Hillary Clinton slams ‘shameful’ decision to delay Russian interference report November 12, 2019 Hillary Clinton has slammed the UK government for delaying the release of a report into potential Russian political interference before next month’s election, calling it “shameful” and “inexplicable”. The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report has been given security clearance, but will not be publicly released before the 12 December General Election. Read more: General [...]
General Election 2019: Farage calls on Conservatives to stand aside for Brexit Party November 12, 2019 Fresh from his apparently “unilateral” decision that The Brexit Party candidates would not contest seats won by Tories in 2017, Nigel Farage is now demanding a reciprocal arrangement. The arch-Eurosceptic has urged Conservative candidates in some Labour-held seats to step aside for his own party. Speaking to BBC Breakfast this morning, he said: “I’ve just [...]
What now as monetary policy runs its course? November 12, 2019 | City Talk The UK looks set to reverse the course of austerity with all parties planning to ramp-up spending as the reality of a huge Brexit upheaval puts the pressure on both the treasury and Bank of England. However, despite the recovery seen in the post-2008 world, we have seen little upside in terms of interest rates [...]
Women’s Equality Party stands aside for Chuka Umunna in Cities of London and Westminster seat November 12, 2019 The Women’s Equality Party candidate in the Cities of London and Westminster has stood aside for Liberal Democrat – and male – rival Chuka Umunna. Jenn Selby announced this morning that she was standing down to endorse his campaign, saying it was critical “to stop Brexit, which will disproportionately impact on women”. Umunna, the former [...]
Killer robots? It’s only a matter of time November 12, 2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in the news at the moment, but there is little discussion of an area where huge sums are being spent by all the major powers: automated intelligent weapons — or killer robots, as they are usually called. Some strategists now envision military operations conducted entirely by automata. Such fully automated [...]