What’s in the Queen’s Speech? Five key announcements May 11, 2021 Today’s Queen’s Speech outlined more than 20 different pieces of legislation the government will look to implement over the next session of parliament. The Queen delivered the government-written speech in a stripped back affair this afternoon, just days after the Conservatives made significant gains in last week’s “super Thursday elections”. City A.M. outlined five key [...]
Government outlines new voter ID law and plan to give PM power to call early election in Queen’s Speech May 11, 2021 The government has outlined its plans to force voters to produce ID at polling stations and to give the Prime Minister back the power to call early elections in today’s Queen’s speech. The Queen said a suite of new government legislation “will strengthen and renew democracy and the constitution”, including “to ensure the integrity of [...]
Analysis: Anneliese Dodds’ sacking was a long time coming May 10, 2021 Anneliese Dodds’ sacking last night makes her one of the shortest ever serving Labour shadow chancellors, after a little more than 13 months in the role. She impressed early on as she marked a clear tonal change from the far-left policies of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, before heavy criticism began to fall on her [...]
Boris Johnson to outline ‘levelling up’ plans in Queen’s Speech tomorrow May 10, 2021 Boris Johnson is expected to outline more of his plans to “level up” the North and the Midlands in tomorrow’s Queen’s Speech fresh off the back of winning a crucial by-election in Hartlepool. The Tories also made ground in traditional Labour heartlands of Sunderland, Durham and Newcastle in local elections as it won hundreds of [...]
Boris Johnson under investigation for £15,000 Caribbean holiday by MP standards watchdog May 10, 2021 Boris Johnson is under investigation by Westminster’s parliamentary watchdog for his £15,000 Caribbean holiday to Mustique with his fiancee Carrie Symonds. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone announced today that it was looking at Johnson’s holiday over the 2019/20 New Year period, after an initial saga over who paid for the holiday. The probe [...]
Sadiq Khan wins 2021 London mayor election over Shaun Bailey May 8, 2021 Sadiq Khan has swept to victory in the 2021 mayor of London election, comfortably beating out Tory challenger Shaun Bailey. After two rounds of voting, Khan won with 1,206,034 total votes to Bailey’s 977,601 votes. The incumbent mayor won the election in a closer race than most pundits expected, with Bailey getting the most votes [...]
Confirmed: Sadiq Khan WINS Mayor of London election May 8, 2021 Sadiq Khan has won a second term as London mayor, getting the most votes in almost all constituencies that have reported today after opening up a five-point lead over rival Shaun Bailey. Khan and Bailey had been neck-and-neck in counting over the past 24 hours, which made the race closer than pundits predicted, with the [...]
London Assembly election results: Labour set to take the most seats May 8, 2021 Labour are set to be the biggest party in the London Assembly, with the party on track to win at least 12 of the 25 seats in the 2021 election. From the constituencies that have announced results, Labour have won eight and the Conservatives have won five seats. Labour is expected to win the last [...]
Angela Rayner to be sacked as Labour party chair and campaign co-ordinator May 8, 2021 Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has reportedly been sacked as party chair and campaign co-ordinator, after a series of devastating defeats in the Thursday’s elections. Multiple media outlets are reporting that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is blaming the party’s poor campaign on his deputy and has removed her from her posts in a move [...]
Tories complete super Thursday hat trick as Andy Street retains West Midlands mayoralty May 8, 2021 Andy Street has retained the West Midlands mayoralty, providing Boris Johnson with the perfect “Tory hat trick” of victories in the super Thursday elections. Street, a former John Lewis managing director, defeated Labour MP Liam Byrne by a larger margin of victory than in his 2016 win. The party also won landslides in the Hartlepool [...]
