Rishi Sunak delivered his final pitch to voters in Hampshire on Wednesday evening where he insisted: "it's not over until the final whistle blows." The prime minister said he has "worked his socks off" and is still "campaigning hard for every vote" on the eve of the general election. .
STORY: The Conservatives are out of power in Britain for the first time in 14 years. How did it happen? And where do they go from here? The Conservative Party have been in a really difficult situation ever since Boris Johnson was forced to resign as prime minister over the coronavirus lockdown Partygate scandal, and then his replacement, Liz Truss, led the country into economic crisis, and she had to resign in record short time. Rishi Sunak had an unenviable inheritance from those two leaders and a big gap in the polls to try and close. Unfortunately for him, nothing Rishi Sunak has tried has been able to close that gap. And many Conservative lawmakers blame his slightly brittle, slightly tetchy style of leadership and lack of overall strategy for this. There's been a number of external factors which have also played into the difficulties the Conservatives have faced. As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak would quite often cite, he would sort of say that the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic or the war in Ukraine is driving prices up - and of course, the cost of living crisis.At the end of the day, the electorate has, sort of said perhaps it's better to change tack, and maybe lay the blame for some of the malaise that there's been in Britain for the last two or three years at the government's door.So where does the Conservative Party go from here? It seems likely that there's going to be a very tough, very messy leadership election as different personalities compete to become the next leader of the party. Now, you would imagine that someone on the right wing of the party might fare pretty well in that election, particularly if it goes to the Conservative Party membership who are to the right of the population at large. However, that leader is also going to need to come up with a pitch for government which can appeal to the broad electorate, not just to the Conservative Party's own members.That balancing act for any future leader will be a really interesting one to watch, to see how they can navigate it.
Eamonn Holmes made a savage dig at new prime minister Keir Starmer this morning as he announced the results of the General Election on GB News. The former This Morning star, 64, branded the Labour leader "deadly dull" as he fronted his Vo
British politics has hardly covered itself in glory in recent years. After the shame of the Corbyn years was punctured by the glorious Tory victory of 2019, we were subjected to a veritable gallery of disgrace: soaring immigration, Covid authoritarianism, Partygate, the Truss-Kwarteng interregnum, Gaza fanaticism. But the true nadir was the election of George Galloway in Rochdale.
Labour looks set to receive a landslide majority in the 2024 general election.
Embarrassing moment followed crushing night for the ex-Tory leader
Leading pollster highlighted two key uncertainties in predicting final result
Mr Galloway pledged to 'make Rochdale great again' - but then lost the constituency just months after he won it
The party has published what it plans to do in its manifesto, and it has a number of promises on the benefits system including Universal Credit and PIP
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As the defeated parties hold their inevitable election inquests, second only to the bloodletting in Tory circles will be that in the Scottish National Party. Reduced from a party whose proud boast was that it had never lost an election in almost two decades, its angry supporters are claiming that this defeat has all but killed off the cause closest to their hearts: independence for Scotland.
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COMMENT : In his touching goodbye speech on the steps of No 10, we saw a side to the (now) former prime minister we’ve rarely seen before – a distinctly human one
Few things in British politics seem familiar this morning. So it’s a welcome feature of this election that the pollsters have seemingly, once again, got it wrong. They overestimated the Lib Dems in 2010. They failed to spot a Tory majority in 2015. They largely didn’t foresee Brexit or Theresa May losing her majority. Now add to that list the apparent overestimation of Labour’s lead.
Along Birmingham’s busy main roads the day after the general election, Palestinian flags flutter from lamp-posts as traffic roars past. A sign near a major roundabout reads: “Vote for genocide. Vote Labour.”
Veteran left-wing political maverick George Galloway lost his parliamentary seat in Britain's election on Friday, defeated by the Labour candidate in the northern English town of Rochdale. Galloway had served for just four months after winning a by-election triggered by the death of the town's previous lawmaker. Back in March, Galloway's pro-Palestinian campaign helped him win votes from the town's Muslim community and he secured what was his seventh stint as a lawmaker, representing his left-wing Workers Party of Britain.
At 3.30am in a sports hall in Islington, the old cry of “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn” echoed from the rafters.
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As Ukraine bleeds territory to Russia, support from one of Kyiv’s strongest backers looks set to falter if the far right sweep to power in Sunday’s French parliamentary elections.
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