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Boris Johnson is way out in front of other leaders when it comes to fake Twitter followers, a new analysis has revealed. Thirty-four per cent of the prime minister’s 1.25 million Twitter followers were found to be fake accounts or bots – the highest of a current party leader out of all the main UK […]

The New Statesman, which presents itself as a left-wing newspaper, has called Jeremy Corbyn ‘unfit to be prime minister’ and is refusing to endorse the Labour Party in the forthcoming election. It has ruled out backing the current party leader for premier as it did in 2017. “His reluctance to apologise for the anti-Semitism in […]

Dominic Cummings has been pictured at the Nato leaders’ summit despite having apparently resigned from his position as a civil servant three weeks ago. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former senior adviser Dominic Cummings, sits during the annual Nato heads of government summit at The Grove hotel in Watford, Hertfordshire. – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images Cummings […]

A series of anti Jacob Rees-Mogg messages have been placed all over the Conservative hopeful’s constituency, including one on top of a slag heap which can be seen for miles. A series of anti Jacob Rees-Mogg messages have been placed all over the Conservative hopefuls constituency, including one on top of a slag heap which […]

A Tory candidate has been accused of treating her constituents ‘with contempt’, after she claimed they were to blame for the government’s inability to get Brexit through parliament. Lia Nici, who is standing in the Leave voting Great Grimsby, said it was the people living in her constituency seat who were to blame for the […]

Boris Johnson has yet again been criticised after comments were unearthed where he claimed that children in low-income families with working mothers were more likely to ‘mug you on the street corner’. In the 2006 book Have I Got Views For You, written before Johnson became mayor of London, Johnson said that women had been […]

Environmental activists dressed as bees have invaded a Brexit Party constituency office before lying on the floor and buzzing in protest. The swarm of protesters, who call themselves Bee-yond Politics, followed similar tactics as Extinction Rebellion campaigners also dressed as bees, who glued themselves to the Liberal Democrats’ electric campaign bus earlier today. The move […]

A Brexit Party MEP who previously complained about being disenfranchised after Nigel Farage withdrew 317 candidates has now said that standing them down was the party’s way of ‘standing our ground’. Alex Phillips, Brexiteer MEP for the South East, responded to the accusation that her leader had “bottled it” and bowed to rightwing pressure to […]

The Brexit Party has removed the whip from one of its most high-profile figures and MEPs, accusing him of having ‘repeatedly undermined’ Nigel Farage’s election strategy. Brexit Party MEP John Longworth during the EU referendum. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images The chief whip Brian Monteith has confirmed that John Longworth has had […]

The police force that pulled over the driver of a car brandishing a ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ message claimed the driver was being ‘inconsiderate’. The New European reported last month how anti-Brexit campaigner Peter Cook was pulled over in his yellow Mini Cooper on the M25 near Brentwood. After some tense exchanges Cook was asked to […]

On the day it dropped one candidate for ‘undermining electoral strategy’, the Brexit Party has stood steadfastly behind its Birmingham Ladywood candidate even after it emerged that he has called to ‘destroy’ Islam. Social media posts by former UKIPper Andrew Garcarz had already been spotted in August, when he was a party activist and his […]

A Brexit Party MEP has been branded ‘deluded’ after claiming that Brexiteers like herself were being ‘censored’, while live on a radio station who reach more than two million listeners every week. Belinda de Lucy is the member of European parliament for South East England. Speaking to Iain Dale on LBC Radio, de Lucy argued […]

Burger King has mocked Vote Leave’s campaign bus during the EU referendum which claimed that the British sends £350 million a week to the EU. The now-notorious Vote Leave bus pictured ahead of its journey across Britain. Vote Leave has since been fined £61,000 for breaking electoral law over spending limits. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive […]

In what appears to be a snub against the US president, Princess Anne has been applauded for apparently refusing to greet Donald Trump. Nato leaders slagging off Trump while Princess Anne laps it up – not giving a single shit – is also the mood we need to take into today pic.twitter.com/OLxmFRzqk1— Hannah Jane Parkinson […]

US drug companies are eyeing post-Brexit UK for a chance to raise prices, new documents have revealed, despite Donald Trump’s recent statement that he had no interest in the NHS even if it was handed to him ‘on a silver platter’. A document written by the US Chamber of Commerce and Coalition of Services Industries, […]

Activists from the climate change awareness group Extinction Rebellion have targeted the Liberal Democrats electric campaign bus in their latest demonstration in Streatham. Extinction Rebellion protesters dressed as bees glue themselves to the Lib Dems battle bus during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in London. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire. – Credit: PA Adam Payne, […]

Liberal Democrat candidate Sam Gyimah has said the first lady of the United States backs his party… because she was seen wearing yellow on her first day in the UK. pic.twitter.com/1y8fayLHa1— Sam Gyimah (@SamGyimah) December 3, 2019 While the country debates whether Donald Trump was right to weigh in on the election on his visit […]

In this election young people can swing the result – and this time it is more important than ever. The stereotype of young people being politically indifferent and ambivalent undeniably holds some truth. But this general election, there is no time for complacency: young people must do what they can to protect their futures. There […]

The ITV News at Ten reported on the US president’s arrival in the UK in a comical style, as Trump provided light relief from the general election campaigning. Viewers were left scratching their head whether they were watching the news or a comedy as presenter Tom Bradby introduced the programme with his usual satirical tone. […]

The tourism industry has criticised the Tories’ plans to stop EU citizens entering the UK using national identity cards after Brexit. Joss Croft, chief executive of trade association UKinbound, expressed doubt that people would buy a passport simply to make the trip across the Channel. He stated that passport ownership in many European countries is […]

A new survey exploring Jeremy Corbyn’s neutral stance on a second referendum has shown his party’s Remain-voting supporters prefer the Liberal Democrat policy of revoking Article 50, but won’t back Jo Swinson’s party at the election. Seeking to understand what both Leave and Remain voting supporters of Labour made of Corbyn’s neutral stance on a […]

Amid concern around the use of social media for political advertising, new research has found a connection between heavy Facebook use and people holding more polarised political views. The research found that the people who use Facebook heavily are 7.25 times more likely to visit far-right website Breitbart than the average Facebook user. Campaigners for […]

Hugh Grant has called out the Lib Dems over a tweet which suggested only their party could take seats off the Tories to stop Brexit. Liberal Democrat’s candidate for Finchley and Golders Green, Luciana Berger and Hugh Grant canvassing in Finchley while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture: David Mirzeoff/PA Wire – Credit: PA […]

A video has been released showing how quickly Farage fans and undecided voters can change their minds when they are shown the Brexit Party leader’s past statements. In a vox pop, anti-far right campaigners Hope Not Hate approached people on the street in Barnsley and watched their views change, from either positive or noncommittal, as […]

With just a few days left to stop Boris Johnson from winning the general election and forcing his destructive Brexit deal upon the UK, some of the biggest names in politics are planning massive rally in London demanding a final say on Brexit. “It’ll be the last big rallying cry for people to vote tactically […]

The former chair of the Conservatives has suggested he would find it hard to vote for his own party in this election. Lord Chris Patten told the BBC that both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump share an “elastic relationship with the truth”, and accused either the prime minister or his aide Dominic Cummings of turning […]

The polling expert John Curtice has weighed in with his newest prediction on the general election, claiming the ‘underestimated’ Remain vote is what will decide who becomes prime minister. The Strathclyde University professor of politics warned Boris Johnson that he “is not home and dry” and added he should “not be sure he’s got it […]

A comedian giving a free charity performance has been booed off stage by an ‘appalling’ audience who reportedly didn’t like his views on Brexit. In my defence, it was only one bread roll and it missed me— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) December 3, 2019 Nish Kumar was pelted with a bread roll as he volunteered a […]

Nigel Farage has defended homophobic, racist, sexist and Islamophobic comments made by Boris Johnson in a radio interview on BBC 5 Live. He excused the comments repeatedly made by Boris Johnson in the 1990s and early 2000s when the prime minister was working as a journalist. Despite a number of opportunities to apologise, Johnson has […]

The Tories have mocked up a visual form of its ‘oven-ready’ microwaveable mean and Twitter users have reacted with the usual disdain. pic.twitter.com/5IPL0d8aLG— Big D (@TedandMaya) December 3, 2019 “Ding! Our Brexit deal is ready”, tweeted the official Conservative Party account, attaching a visual of a microwaveable meal. The instructions for the ‘oven-ready’ meal tell […]

Nigel Farage has said that he ‘won’t be going away’ in politics despite several days before insisting once Brexit is done he would disappear. Appearing on BBC Radio 5 Live, the Brexit Party leader was questioned by caller Mike as to why he “walked away” from politics in the aftermath of the EU referendum. Farage […]

A UKIP candidate was asked why the party should be taken seriously in the general election after having nine leaders in three years. LBC’s Iain Dale asked UKIP candidate for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, David Kurten, the bruising question during a phone-in. “Yeah, I’ll be honest with you, we haven’t had an easy time since […]