In the 2017 and 2019 votes, Newcastle took that honor with announcements in less than 90 minutes of polls closing. Between 1992 and 2015, Sunderland was the first to declare its seat. — Jenni Reid Thu, Jul 4 20246:14 PM EDT Major damage done to Conservatives by smaller parties, polling ...
10:11 PM (BST).If the exit polls are right but the seat projections are based on uniform swing, we would show a Conservative majority on those numbers. 10:07 PM (BST).We would obviously project a more favorable result than just 307 seats for Conservatives on those numbers. Calculating no...
From 2020 on, pandemic-related mismanagement and the energy crisis have kept the governing party trailing in opinion polls. On Thursday’s election, several ministers and key Conservatives figures would have lost their seat in parliament, according to the BBC’s exit p...
Showtime! UK readies pomp for King Charles III’s coronation 1 of 15 | London’s Big Ben was illuminated on Wednesday night to mark King Charles’ upcoming coronation. The famous British landmark was lit up with a series of projections ahead of Saturday’s ceremony. 2 of 1...
Reform UK, which was first founded in 2018 as the Brexit Party, pitches itself as a growing threat to the Conservatives, with the latest polls putting it at around 10%. It achieved its best election performance last month,taking 13% of the vote in Wellingborough- a seat that was won by...
Britain’s left-wing Labour party have steadily bridged a seemingly unassailable gap on the ruling right-wing Conservatives in the run-up to the election on June 8, with thelatest opinion pollsforcing investors to entertain the possibility of a third political shock in as many years. ...
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House of Lords:This is where Lord Ashcroft can be found when he’s not doing polls. In many ways, it’s like the House of Commons — it too is a body of Parliament that can introduce legislation, and its members can become government ministers. Unlike the Commons, however, the approxima...
Polling expert Sir John Curtice told the BBC on Friday that Starmer “still looks to be on course to be our next prime minister”. He said Reform’s performance showed that the party’s strong showing in national opinion polls was not “a mirage”. He added: “It makes life even more ...
Chris Skidmore, former energy minister, last week resigned as an MP in protest, triggering a by-election in his Kingswood seat, one of three potential by-election contests facing Sunak in the first half of the year. On Sunday, the Toriesselected Helen Harrison, the partner of disgraced ex-...