Boris Johnson left No10 for Parliament today as he plans to heap pressure on stricken Keir Starmer with a Queen’s Speech aiming to ‘level up’ jobs and investment in former Labour heartlands. The PM will try to cement his new ‘Blue Wall’ vowing people will no longer have to move to London for decent work, and … Read more
‘Rocket fuel’ to fire up Britain: After his election victory, Boris Johnson promises to bring in laws to boost education chances and help ‘level up’ the nation Plans to give every adult access to loans to fund college courses and training The PM wants ‘lifetime skills guarantee’ to help people upgrade qualifications Is one of … Read more
No smoke without fine! Tory MP Richard Holden is hit with £100 penalty notice for littering after dropping cigarette butt outside North-West Durham election count Richard Holden was hit with the charge in his constituency in County Durham He has previously posted images of himself on social media litter picking The MP was given ten … Read more
There’s no gratitude in politics, they say. But this aphorism appears to have been refuted in last week’s multiple elections. The Conservatives in England, the SNP in Scotland and Labour in Wales: all were rewarded. The point is that in each of our nations, the leaders of these (governing) parties were fronting up the Covid … Read more
Diane Abbott today demanded Keir Starmer returns to the ‘popular’ Socialist policies from the Jeremy Corbyn era as Labour plunged further into civil war. The former shadow home secretary lashed out at Sir Keir as she insisted Mr Corbyn only led the party to its worst general election defeat since 1935 due to an ‘extraordinary … Read more
Desperate Keir Starmer has drafted in a New Labour pollster as his strategy chief as he faces civil war after the disastrous Super Thursday elections. Deborah Mattinson, a key adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has been appointed to the critical role as Sir Keir tries to rebuild his shattered leadership – including dropping … Read more
Wealthy Tories with the Queen as a neighbour save the Union… for now: Victory in Aberdeen West where the Royals holiday at Balmoral stops SNP majority Aberdeenshire West is the constituency that takes in the Queen’s Highland home Win would have given Sturgeon firm moral mandate to hold repeat of the indyref But the SNP … Read more
Andy Burnham piled more pressure on Labour leader Keir Starmer today as he lashed out at the party for being too ‘London-centric’. The former health secretary, who quit as an MP after losing the leadership to Jeremy Corbyn, also hinted that he would be prepared to have another tilt at the top job after being … Read more
The Labour Party today blamed the coronavirus pandemic for ‘restricting’ the opportunities’ for its politicians to campaign across Britain after the Conservatives racked up a string of stunning poll victories in the local elections. The post-mortem deepened for Sir Keir Starmer‘s party today with results now in from 84 of 143 English councils. The Tories … Read more
For a hundred years Labour has been one of the two great political parties of Great Britain. It may have governed less often than the Conservatives but it has long been established as a major force in our politics. Its first prime minister, who led a short-lived Labour minority government in 1923, was Ramsay MacDonald, … Read more