The former House of Commons Speaker will join Dermot Murnaghan to give his take on the election results as they unfold live on air. Sky News hope John Bercow, who recently stepped down after a ten year stint in the role, will bring “authority and wit” to the broadcaster’s coverage on December 12. But the […]
The former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party has written an article for The Telegraph about the problems of this potential alliance as an outcome of the election in three week’s time. She said the alliance would see “higher taxes, mass nationalisation and weaker defence”. Ms Davidson said an alliance between SNP and Labour “would […]
MEP for London Ben Habib believes his party may have made the wrong decision in not contesting the 317 seats that the Conservatives won in the 2017 election. He added he would be “pleased” if the party managed to gain 20 MPs in the December 12 poll. He told Sky News: “I would be surprised […]
Jennifer Arcuri has claimed she rang Boris Johnson over a media storm about their relationship – but the phone was immediately passed to someone speaking Chinese. The model-turned-entrepreneur has revealed the bizarre incident that unfolded when she tried to contact the Tory leader on his personal mobile phone. Another time, she said, the Prime Minister […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounted to witness intimidation. Trump blasted Marie Yovanovitch, a career diplomat, as she explained to the second day of […]
(Reuters) – Democrat Joe Biden would invest $1.3 trillion over a decade on electric car charging stations, high-speed railroads, clean-energy research and other public infrastructure if he is elected U.S. president next year, his campaign said on Thursday. Biden, a former vice president, also vowed to respond to a “full-blown recession” among U.S. manufacturers by […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said a breakthrough in talks with the Trump administration on the trade pact with Mexico and Canada could be imminent and that she wanted to pass the deal by the end of the year. “We are moving positively in terms of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement. Again, […]
Exactly a century ago, the first woman who took her seat in the Commons was elected as an MP. It was on 15 November 1919 that Nancy Astor won Plymouth, and two weeks later she entered parliament. It came about a year after women won the right to stand in elections as well as to […]
The government was today accused of a "cladding lottery" as pressure turned on Boris Johnson over a massive fire in a block of student flats. Bolton's head of high-rise housing blasted the "crisis" as local chiefs said The Cube was coated in "concerning" cladding – but did not qualify for government funding to replace it. […]
Nigel Farage has said he won't vote in the general election – because he can't bring himself to back the Tory where he lives. The Brexit Party leader this week stood down candidates in all 317 constituencies won by the Tories in 2017, including his own in Kent. But Mr Farage has said he can't […]