General Election

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted ‘I can still be Prime Minister’ as he vowed to fight Theresa May’s attempt to run a minority government ‘all the way’. Labour won 262 seats in the General Election, up from the 232 secured by Ed Miliband in 2015, but the Conservatives remain the largest party in Parliament. […]

Theresa May is currently grappling with keeping her government together. She is running the first minority government since Harold Wilson’s short-lived 1974 administration. That government lasted a few months, now all the talk in Westminster is of another General Election, just as in the two elections of 1974. In the second, October 1974 election, Wilson […]

The gap between Labour and the Conservatives is narrowing in the final days before the General Election on 8 June, according to the latest polls. While predictions vary, the surveys agree that the massive majority enjoyed by Theresa May when she first announced the snap election has been slashed. When the Prime Minister called the election […]

Theresa May looks set to fall nine seats short of winning a majority at next week’s parliamentary election, a model from polling company YouGov has estimated, a smaller shortfall than the 16 seat gap shown a day earlier. YouGov’s prediction model showed the Conservatives winning 317 seats, Labour on 253 and other parties winning 80 seats […]

Labour is promising to put 10,000 additional police on the streets of England and Wales if the party gains power in the General Election. In his latest campaign pledge, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said extra “bobbies on the beat” will be funded by reversing Tory cuts to Capital Gains Tax. In last year’s Budget, the […]