Britain is ready for change, but politics hasn’t quite caught up May 17, 2019 Walk past the Palace of Westminster, and the crowds of protesters blocking the pavement send a clear message: the British are finally becoming politicised. At the same time, the esteem of the UK public for our major political parties is at an all-time low. This is not a peculiarly British phenomenon. In Europe, previously dominant [...]
Brexit party will win most EU election votes as Tories languish under May, finds poll May 15, 2019 The Brexit party is on course to win the lion’s share of votes in the upcoming EU elections as the Tories continue to shed support among the public. Read more: MPs in eurosceptic ERG 'will vote against' May's Brexit deal in June Nigel Farage’s politicians topped the public vote with a 27 per cent share [...]
Conservatives sink to fifth in London, shows latest Euro election poll May 13, 2019 The Conservatives have slipped to a humiliating fifth place in London, according to a new opinion poll ahead of the European elections. Read more: Tories fall to fifth place in polls as Brexit party snaps up voters A survey carried out by Yougov shows that just 10 per cent of Londoners are planning to back [...]
Tories fall to fifth place in opinion polls as Nigel Farage’s Brexit party snaps up voters May 13, 2019 The Conservatives have slumped to fifth place in an opinion poll ahead of the European elections later this month. Read more: Cabinet allies begin to abandon May as Tories languish in polls The Tories were placed at just 10 per cent, behind almost every major political party, according to a Yougov poll commissioned by the [...]
Sir Keir Starmer: Labour MPs would reject Brexit deal without second referendum May 13, 2019 Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has warned up to 150 Labour MPs would reject any Brexit agreement that did not include a second referendum. Starmer said more than two-thirds of Labour MPs could oppose any deal that did not include a public vote, meaning it would be unlikely to pass through Parliament. Read more: [...]
UK voters think the Brexit Party and Change UK will disappear in 10 years May 13, 2019 They may only just be getting started, but the majority of Britons think the newly formed Brexit Party and Change UK will disappear within a decade. A YouGov poll has found that nearly two thirds of those surveyed said they believed Nigel Farage's party would disappear in the next ten years, while 56 per cent [...]
Cabinet allies begin to abandon Theresa May as Tories languish in EU election polls May 12, 2019 Previously loyal Cabinet ministers believe Theresa May has no chance at passing her Brexit deal through parliament and has just weeks left as Prime Minister, it has been reported. Ministers including her de facto deputy, David Lidington, and transport secretary, Chris Grayling, are said to be among those who have given up hope that May's [...]
Get your Eurovision goggles, it’s time for yet another election May 10, 2019 Two years and 11 months since Britain voted to leave the EU, the country is voting again, on how we’d like to be represented in it while we struggle to work out what leaving actually means. Yes, we found out this week that the Euros are definitely on, despite the best efforts of an embattled [...]
Jeremy Corbyn: Second referendum could heal the UK May 9, 2019 A second referendum on Brexit could provide a “healing process” for the UK, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed as he launched his party’s European election campaign. Speaking in Kent, Corbyn said a confirmatory vote on any deal agreed with Brussels could help bring the Brexit process to a “conclusion”. Labour’s official party policy is to [...]
Sterling slips as UK prepares to take part in European elections May 8, 2019 The pound slipped 0.23 per cent this morning from $1.307 to $1.304 following yesterday's confirmation that the UK will take part in the EU elections. The 0.23 per cent drop comes after the government repeatedly said it did not want the UK to take part in the elections to the European Parliament later this month. [...]