General Election
‘I disagreed with Frank Field, but he was no Tory and I loved him all the same’
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This piece was originally published on Philip Collins’ Substack and can be found here. I think of Frank Field in Birkenhead, the ...
Conservative party under Boris Johnson could win votes of ‘lost Conservatives’
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Boris Johnson is the only Tory who would outperform Rishi Sunak against Sir Keir Starmer if the party changed leader, a new ...
Reform leader Richard Tice rejects an election pact with Conservatives
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Andrea Jenkyns, a Tory MP, repeated her call for Mr Sunak to be replaced by a different leader. There were also private ...
Tory by-election candidate says he will only do the job for a year
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“These are areas that local people found as a lifeline during the pandemic. They would walk there, they would play there, they ...
Labour MPs face election backlash by Muslim voters over party’s stance on Israel-Gaza war
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Labour MPs privately fear some colleagues could fail to get re-elected because of the backlash among Muslim votes to the party’s stance ...
Election could delay first interest rate cut, ex-Bank of England economists warn
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The Bank of England may hold off on making a first cut to interest rates during a general election campaign, two economists ...
Tories on course for worst electoral defeat since 1997, poll suggests
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The results are primarily driven by a collapse in the Conservative vote rather than a surge in Labour’s. In constituencies across England ...
The seat where Nigel Farage could beat Tories if he stood as Reform candidate
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The Survation poll of 509 adults in Clacton, carried out between Jan 9 and 12, found that, based on the existing set ...
Britain to borrow record £206bn from private investors this year as election looms
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Vivek Paul, chief investment strategist for the UK at BlackRock, said any expensive election pledges could unnerve investors. “As inflation falls in ...
General election on November 14 pencilled in by Tory strategists
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The Prime Minister reportedly plans to warn that the country has turned a corner under his stewardship and that a Labour government ...
