General Election 2019
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Boris announces spending plan for neglected towns
Prime minister says new measures will focus on rail links and pub closures. Boris Johnson has announced another election package costing hundreds of millions of pounds for neglected towns, some of which will be spent in marginal constituencies. Concentrating on rundown high streets, the closures of pubs and post offices and the restoration of rail links, the prime minister has claimed that the measures will build upon the £3.6bn towns fund first announced in July. Towns that have been singled ou
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UK politics – live: Tory MP Dan Poulter defects to Labour as plot hatched to oust Sunak before election
Drubbing for Tories in next week’s local elections could force Sunak’s hand
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Who is Dan Poulter: The Tory MP defecting to Labour in fury at NHS crisis
The Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP will sit on the Labour benches until the next general election, expected this autumn, when he has announced he will step down
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Tories doomed at next election because of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, says pollster John Curtice
John Curtice says Boris Johnson’s No 10 lockdown parties and Truss’s economic catastrophe have made it impossible for Rishi Sunak to cling on to power
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'It's A Sign Of Real Rot': Laura Kuenssberg Roasts Minister After Tory MP Defects To Labour
Chris Philp hit out at Dan Poulter after he said the Conservatives were now "a nationalist party".
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Tory MP and ex-health minister Dan Poulter's defection to Labour piles pressure on PM
Dr Dan Poulter urged Rishi Sunak to ‘call an election now’ as he said ‘patients deserve better’
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Brexit campaign’s AI firm Faculty gets political again
Has the AI firm behind the Brexit campaign had a second referendum on its political activity? London-based Faculty AI collected over a quarter of a million pounds for providing its data services to Dominic Cummings’ Vote Leave campaign in 2016, and also worked with the parent company of the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica. But such was the media frenzy over Faculty’s controversial work, it opted to move out of politics altogether.
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