In pictures: Dogs at polling stations across the UK December 12, 2019 As Britain goes to the polls after a six-week election campaign that we can all agree has felt much longer, there is one ray of light guaranteed to cheer up the election-weary public: dogs at polling stations. Read more: Follow the General Election 2019 live with our blog With three elections in four years, Britons [...]
Election night parties in London: Where to watch the results roll in December 12, 2019 It’s election night, it’s almost Christmas and it’s time to watch the results roll in. Ahead of an evening of electoral highs and lows, City A.M. runs through five of the best destinations in London to go to celebrate your party’s success or drown your sorrows. Read more: General election live: voters head to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Brits ‘wrongly’ told they can vote tomorrow after IT glitch December 11, 2019 Some people who are not on the electoral register have been wrongly told they can vote in tomorrow’s election due to an IT error. The Electoral Commission confirmed that a “small number” of people had been affected by the mistake, but did not specify a number. Read more: Election 2019: Leaders give one final push [...]
Election 2019: The many losers, and occasional winners, of the campaign December 11, 2019 The winter election has finally come – but was the campaign as bad as we thought? Here we round up the many losers, and occasional winners, of 2019… Tory rebel David Gauke might be about to lose his South West Hertfordshire seat to his Conservative replacement Gagan Mohindra, but the founding member of the Gaukward [...]
Michael Heseltine: Hung parliament better than Conservative majority under ‘flexible’ Boris Johnson December 11, 2019 If this election has proved anything, it’s that political allegiances aren’t what they used to be – not least when it comes to those normally found sitting in parliament. Which is why I find myself speaking to Tory grandee, former frontbencher and Conservative peer Michael Heseltine about his decision to back the Liberal Democrats over [...]
Yougov poll: These are the London seats tipped to swing for Labour December 11, 2019 Some of London’s longest-standing Conservative seats are tipped to swing for Labour in tomorrow’s election, according to the final Yougov poll. Released last night, the Yougov poll suggests a slim Conservative majority of 28 seats across the country, an increase of 22 on 2017, which would be enough for Boris Johnson to push through the [...]
Not quite Frost/Nixon: Boris Johnson hides in fridge as adviser rows with TV reporter December 11, 2019 A frustrated media adviser to Boris Johnson was filmed swearing at a reporter live on ITV this morning, as the Prime Minister retreated into a fridge in response to a request for interview. Johnson was participating in an early morning milk round in Yorkshire today when Rob Oxley blocked the path of an ITV reporter [...]