Ready for Rees-Mogg: Brexiteers Back Trad Tory for PM
Supporters of a campaign to persuade Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg to run for leader of the Conservative Party are preparing to deliver a petition to the MP next week.
Supporters of a campaign to persuade Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg to run for leader of the Conservative Party are preparing to deliver a petition to the MP next week.
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said her commitment to social liberalism is more important to her than the Conservative party.
The Conservatives’ election campaign has been pitched into chaos by the Brexit Secretary almost immediately countering an immigration target pledge made by the prime minister, saying that it was unlikely to be met.
The Conservative have pledged to push to reform the international definitions of asylum and refugee status, claiming current systems favour the young, fit and well resourced who can illegally travel to Europe.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has attacked the Tories for failing to slash immigration, putting a “balanced” zero net migration policy at the heart of their general election pitch.
The majority of the local election results are in, with UKIP gaining just one seat from Labour and holding onto one it was defending, losing more than 80, mainly to the Tories.
The Conservatives are hoping to take advantage of a strong poll lead to unseat key Labour figures, in what is predicted to be a “bloodbath” result for the beleaguered Labour Party.
The Conservative Party is likely to drop a 2015 pledge to withdraw Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights, leaving Britain bound by the convention for at least another five years.
LONDON (AFP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will seek to rally her party faithful Friday after a week in which her political honeymoon abruptly ended, laying bare her weaknesses over Brexit.
The Electoral Commission has fined the Conservative party a record £70,000 over missing and unreported payments, claiming the rule breaking gave them a “realistic prospect” of an unfair advantage over UKIP in South Thanet.
A Labour councillor has been suspended from the local party after throwing a Nazi salute towards UKIP and Conservative politicians.
A new Gallup survey finds that 66 percent of Americans have a favorable view of British Prime Minister Theresa May.