18 days to go by tom rayner, political correspondent friday's confirmation that talks in brussels were to intensify led to the sense the chances of a deal had increased, but saturday has seen something of a reality check. it wasn't down to any briefing coming out from the negotiators, but...
You assume Thatcher would have won the 1992 general election, but the issues of the Poll Tax was a far greater election liability even if she had done the eventual U-turn. Yes the Maastricht Treaty might have been stalled but not killed it off, so would Thatcher have tried to pull the ...
This in turn, however, is also probably too bold a conclusion. When the BESIP asked respondents to give both the parties and the leaders a mark out of ten, those Leave voters who switched from Labour to the Brexit Party gave both the Conservatives (3.8) and Boris Johnson (5.3) a lower...
The new Government was of course quick to confirm what Barry has always known – that global warming was a conspiracy cooked up by the global elite – and it’s vital that Britain exploits its remaining fossil fuels without delay. And then, out of the corner of his eye, Barry catches the...
ByCiarán HancockWed Jun 29 2016 - 05:50 North’s VIP Brexiteers out in force as queen unveils statue to war hero Queen Elizabeth keeps her counsel as she visits North Antrim constituency ByGerry MoriartyWed Jun 29 2016 - 01:01 Growth could fall 0.5% over Brexit vote, says Noonan ...
In other words, for a trade union to have immunity from suit, not only must any action be done “in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute”, but they must also have conducted a ballot of their membership and achieved a majority vote based on at least a 50% voter turn-out –...
This result is just a beginning. It can be seen as promising; given how recently the Brexit Party was formed, their share of the vote is very impressive. But this result cannot be read as a decisive endorsement of a true Brexit. The waters are muddied by the small turnout and by the...
The MP you refer to was re elected because he was a popular local MP, there being no proof he won in either the by-election of 2014 or the 2015 GE because there was any great ground swell of support for UKIP as a party. The constituency reverted back to Conservative in 2017 (an ...
election; so presumably he would be happy to arrange that he would be that constituency’s parliamentary representative for only 54% of the time, while the views of the other 46% of the voters were fully respected by allowing the other candidates to share the seat with him in these ...
who appreciated his seriousness as a backbench parliamentarian. He is an assiduous attender of debates, sometimes stretching out full-length on the green leather benches while waiting for his turn to speak. His dry humour, courtesy and eloquence had him marked down by some colleagues as a future...