The Thursday ballot is the first U.K. general election since 2019, when then-Conservative leader Boris Johnson clinched the party’s biggest majority win since 1987 over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. That was on a platform promising to complete the “Brexit” process of leaving the European Union, ...
While voter polls may have differed in scale and methodology, the results have pointed in one direction, showing that the center-left Labour Party has around a 20-point lead on its main rival, the Conservatives. Labour is on track to win around 40% of the vote while roughly 20% of the ...
Lagging in Polls, UK Conservatives Pitch National Service at 18 More Reuters North Yorkshire, May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Molly Darlington/Pool By Andy Bruce (Reuters) - Britain's Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if it wins the national election...
ranging from slow economic growth to political instability, demonstrated by frequent changes of party leadership. The Tories currently lag behind their main rival, the Labour Party, in the latest YouGov polls.
“Russia has been a party to the protocol since 1988 and confirms its obligations to observe the permanent neutrality of the Panama Canal, advocating for keeping this international transit waterway safe and open.”Trump’s pledge to take control of the canal has been a central theme of his ...
Today, the prime minister is the leader the party that holds a majority in the House of Commons, but technically he or she must still be offered the post by the monarch, said Anna Whitelock, professor of history of the monarchy at London’s City University. ...
Co-chair of the Conservative Party Nigel Huddleston has told Sky News Kemi Badenoch is "not a known quantity yet" after she said Nigel Farage had a "head start" on her. Mr Farage's Reform UK has overtaken the Tories in the opinion polls in recent ...
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is facing a number of political attack ads today over a proposal to consider means-testing the pensions triple lock. A Labour Party ad claimed: "The Tories will cut your state pension". The Liberal Democrats accused Ms Badenoch of planning to "scrap the triple ...
UK election results 'not as dramatic' as opinion polls have been suggesting: Invesco Paul Jackson from Invesco says the Labour Party will nevertheless have a "very sizable majority" and will be "able to get on with their program." watch now ...
Pro-Brexit, anti-immigration campaigner Nigel Farage is returning to front-line British politics. He announced Monday that he will take the helm of the right-wing party Reform U.K. and run for Parliament in the July 4 election.