French politicians attacked on election campaign trail
A candidate for Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance has been attacked while campaigning, just days before the second round of voting in France's election.
A candidate for Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance has been attacked while campaigning, just days before the second round of voting in France's election.
Suella Braverman’s prospective Conservative leadership campaign has been dealt a blow after a key ally abandoned her.
When the circus finally arrived, it offered the usual attractions. The old rituals were a comfort. John Curtice, the swing-o-meter, Laura Kuenssberg and Jeremy Vine performed the familiar motions, not to mention the irrepressible Count Binface.
ITV Good Morning Britain fans asked 'is it appropriate' as Ed Balls returned to host alongside Susanna Reid
'I will not be cowed'
The Reform UK leader who is also the new MP for Clacton, watched East Thurrock Community Football Club in Corringham on Saturday.
Many commentators have been using adjectives like devastating and seismic to describe the significance of the election result.
As one big Tory beast after another faced The Hunger Games on election night, one notably escaped the carnage. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, stood tall on the podium with the former and current Labour candidates whose vicious infighting had done him such a big favour.
The move to Downing Street is a symbolic moment for any incoming prime minister, the most obvious proof of your drastically changed situation. You do not merely run the shop, as Mrs Thatcher said, you live above it. Downing Street is one of the most prestigious political residences on Earth, perhaps second only to the White House. For five years, barring calamity, it is yours, for you to decorate with all the golden Lulu Lytle wallpaper you like.
On October 8, as the world was beginning to comprehend what had just happened in southern Israel, most decent people – including many who would go on to decry Israel’s retaliatory campaign – expressed genuine horror at what Gaza’s Islamist barbarians had done. But a substantial minority was openly cheering. Not just in Turkey and Iran, but in Toronto and London.
The filmmaker had blunt words for the president in a new MSNBC interview.
A bit of head-scratcher, this one.
The populist threat has been crushed. The “far-Right” has been blocked from forming a government, and a financial crisis has been averted. With the surprising results from the French elections last night showing Marine Le Pen’s National Rally dropping to third place in the new Parliament, it would be easy to assume that the country was getting back to normal. But hold on. The election massively strengthened the far-Left – and it is the Marxist extremists that pose the real threat to the survival
Jovan Owusu-Nepaul tells of vitriol from Reform supporters and says he was concerned for safety of those around him
An Iranian warship capsized while undergoing port repairs, killing two officers and injuring several others.
Nicola Sturgeon is facing an SNP backlash for “pontificating” on her party’s election disaster during a lucrative TV appearance.
Toni Kroos said he believes Germany’s influx of migrants was “too uncontrolled” and that the country has changed considerably in the 10 years since he left.
Keir Starmer campaigned as changed Labour, and now he will govern as New Labour. It’s not difficult to imagine the consternation felt by Starmer’s critics on the Left at the news that some of the big beasts from the eras of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are making a comeback. Most significant is the return of Alan Milburn, Blair’s health secretary, who will advise his successor, Wes Streeting, on reform of the NHS.
How could the new Labour government affect benefit payments?
“Honestly, I thought there might be a little more legwork involved” in debunking the former president’s comment, said the MSNBC host.
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