UK Conservatives Pull Small Victory From Jaws of Defeat, Losing Only Two of Three Special Elections
Anger in London over Labour mayor Khan’s push for radical anti-car measures upset the apple cart in a by-election result overnight.
Anger in London over Labour mayor Khan’s push for radical anti-car measures upset the apple cart in a by-election result overnight.
A candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) was disqualified by the party over his pro-life views, according to a pro-life group.
The political party of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted from office in April, won a “crucial” by-election in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Sunday, prompting Khan on Monday to call for fresh national elections, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported.
Conservatives are “doomed” because law-abiding, respectable middle-England now sees Boris Johnson as dishonest, not a japester, Farage said.
The Liberals have flipped one of the strongest Conservative seats in the country, prompting the Tory chairman to tender his resignation.
Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton are both electing replacements for Conservative MPs who resigned in disgrace.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that the Tories may be “doomed” at the next general election unless they deal with the migrant crisis in the English Channel, claiming that “six hundred migrants” landed in Britain on Thursday.
Tories lost a seat that had been blue for the whole of modern UK political history, with pundits blaming Coronavirus scandals and tax rises.
The Liberal Democrats are now the bookies’ favourite to win in the Conservative stronghold of North Shropshire in Thursday’s by-election, according to reports, following weeks of allegations that Boris Johnson’s government had broken lockdown rules last winter while the rest of Britain was forced to cancel Christmas gatherings.
Anti-Brexit Lib Dems crashed to fifth place and upstart Rejoin EU scraped together just 151 votes in Thursday’s special election.
Boris Johnson’s Conservative government will put Brexit at risk if it fails to cut taxes, Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator has warned.
Richard Tice said that China and Russia are “laughing” at Britain as Boris Johnson virtue signals with his “net-stupid” green agenda.
Reform UK leader Richard Tice has announced that he will be running for Parliament to allow voters to send a “powerful message” against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s left-wing Build Back Better agenda.
Pollsters made a big song and dance about how they’d learnt lessons in the wake of their comprehensive failure to foresee Brexit. Yet even when the laser-focus of the country’s greatest political minds bears down on just one constituency, Westminster still finds Britain inscrutable.
Labour has clung on to its northern constituency seat of Batley and Spen in Thursday’s by-election, with party candidate Kim Leadbeater winning by just 323 votes.
The Conservatives had been defying conventional logic, winning by-elections while in government — a rare achievement — but now they have been soundly defeated in a safe seat by a minor party, analysis suggests, on the small matter of the countryside being swallowed whole by development. Will the Tories’ big-money donors in the construction industry come to haunt them?
In a surprising result, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives has been easily defeated in a special election for a seat that it has held for decades.
The leader of the House of Commons has called for Rob Roberts to resign after the disgraced MP was found to have sexually harassed young parliamentary staff.
Nigel Farage has said that the “trendy metropolitan” Labour Party has permanently lost the working classes after the Conservatives took Hartlepool from Labour in a by-election.
Labour’s Defence boss said the party had been captured by “London-based bourgeoisie… woke social media warriors” as he quit his post.
The Tories are set to sweep to victory in the upcoming by-election in Hartlepool, according to a shock poll released on Tuesday.
South Korea’s ruling, left-wing Democratic Party (DP) suffered a “crushing” defeat on Wednesday in two mayoral by-elections viewed by political observers as a bellwether for the country’s presidential election next year.
An entrepreneur who appeared on Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire was today described by Nigel Farage as having “righteous indignation” about Brexit and the state of politics as he was selected as the Brexit Party candidate to contest the Peterborough by-election.
MP Fiona Onasanya has been removed from her Peterborough constituency seat in a recall petition, and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party will be contesting the upcoming by-election.