Rishi Sunak is predicted to be the first prime minister to lose his seat in a general election. A major opinion poll for The Telegraph found the Conservatives were also on track to fall to just 53 seats, with nearly three-quarters of the Cabinet not voting. According to Savanta and Electoral Calculus poll analysis, the… Read More »
Leave aside the fight for Britain’s right-leaning hearts and minds, the real challenge facing Nigel Farage is fashion at the moment. The streets of Clacton, the constituency where the Reform UK leader hopes to become an MP on July 4, have become a political battleground as well as a catwalk, thanks to Labour’s candidate for… Read More »
Rodreguez King-Dorset is in a reflective mood ahead of his performance at Windrush Secret at Jacksons Lane this week. “I confront my daily life memories, some of which still haunt me today,” the playwright and actor tells me. We meet in London, where he has just arrived after his successful three-week run off-Broadway. The production… Read More »
Unlike Nigel Farage, Sir Keir Starmer has said remarkably little during this campaign. Starmer has stood several times next to a sign that reads “CHANGE” with a resting expression – referring to a man with irresistible hair lowering himself gingerly onto an inflatable haemorrhoid cushion. The most radical thing the Labor leader did last month… Read More »
David Cameron has returned from space to say Nigel Farage wants to destroy the Conservative Party, is playing “dog whistle” politics and the Conservative Party should move a mile away from him. Thus the battle lines for the next leadership contest are being drawn. The early advantage goes to elites who say the party has… Read More »
A few weeks ago I asked readers whether I should vote Conservative. Now the question is: should I vote for Reform? The debate in my mind is no longer about who will form the next government – that’s over, it’s Labour’s – but about who the little Tories will prefer to see as the opposition.… Read More »
They say you should never fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, and that adage must now include never fighting with someone who has their own TV show. Participating in a live debate for the first time this election, Nigel Farage was flamboyant, combative and popular. Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt made a good… Read More »
Newly crowned Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will launch his general election campaign in Clacton on Tuesday as he embarks on his eighth bid to become an MP. In a blow to Rishi Sunak, the former Ukip leader announced on Monday that he would stand in the constituency of Essex, declaring himself the new leader… Read More »
As the night wore on, the local elections heralded a great election for Labour. Consider going out for drinks after work, kissing the colleague you’ve been flirting with for months, and eventually going back to theirs. This was the Labor Party situation in the early hours of Friday morning; While conservatives look like a guy… Read More »
Britain’s top polling guru has said he will be “no consolation” to Rishi Sunak over brutal local elections in which Reform UK pushed the Conservative Party into third place in a string of council seats. Despite finishing narrowly ahead of Nigel Farage’s right-wing rival party in the Blackpool South by-election, which Labor comfortably won, the… Read More »