Michael Gove warns by-elections will be difficult Rishi Sunak escaped a triple by-election nightmare with the Tories hanging on to one of the three seats. The Conservatives retained Boris Johnson’s former Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. But Labour won Selby and Ainsty in North Yorkshire and the Lib Dems took Somerton and Frome in Somerset, […]
Michael Gove warns by-elections will be difficult Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives will be in “deep electoral trouble” if they lose all three of tomorrow’s by-elections, according to a leading pollster. Professor Sir John Curtice said it is impossible to predict the outcomes of the crunch votes in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Selby and Ainsty, and Somerton […]
BBC: Greg Hands told Tories are ‘ignoring the voting’ Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party chairman has accidentally let slip a private warning that the three by-elections tomorrow will prove a “challenging night” for the Conservatives. Photographs uploaded to Flickr show a meeting of Mr Sunak’s political cabinet – a meeting of top ministers to discuss party […]
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump and the federal prosecutors who charged him with illegally holding on to highly sensitive national defense documents began a first hearing on Tuesday with the judge overseeing the case to discuss the scheduling of the trial and how to handle the classified material at the heart of the […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, with his poll numbers sagging and his opponents circling, appealed to South Carolina Republicans on Tuesday by doubling down on his attacks over social issues like transgender rights, hoping for a reset for his struggling White House campaign. But a major shift in tone or strategy from Mr. DeSantis, either […]
Just £200 million is enough to replace the UK’s out-of-date radiotherapy machines and help 50,000 cancer patients every year, MPs have insisted. The “peanuts” investment would save countless lives, slash treatment and waiting times, helping to ease the NHS cancer backlog, they said. MPs used a key parliamentary debate to press the need for more […]
Colorado voters appear to favor a far-reaching ballot initiative aimed at property taxes, education funding, and TABOR tax refunds but, a recent poll found, they could be swayed. Voters will decide on Proposition HH this November. If it passes, it would change how property tax is calculated — potentially saving property owners hundreds of dollars […]
Nigel Farage critiques the government’s migrant plan The Government is facing yet more migrant controversy this evening after it emerged the Home Office has thrown Britain’s borders open to bricklayers, roofers, carpenters and plasterers. The swathe of blue collar professions was added to the Government’s list of occupation shortages, allowing foreign workers to come in […]
House of Lords peers debate migration bill past 4am Peers were told it was time to listen to the will of MPs and let the Government get on with “securing our borders and stopping the boats”. Their repeated attempts to water down the legislation mean it is bouncing between the Commons and the Lords until […]
An accommodation barge that will house hundreds of asylum seekers will soon arrive in Dorset having its berth in Cornwall. The Bibby Stockholm is tasked with housing 500 asylum seekers who are in the later stages of their application process. It will be situated at Portland Port for the next 18 months, having just left Falmouth […]