Conservative MP Dan Poulter has defected to Labor in the latest blow to Rishi Sunak's government. The former health secretary, who works part-time as a doctor, said that as a Tory he had found it “increasingly difficult to look his NHS colleagues in the eye”. He claimed the Conservatives were not prioritizing public services and said they no longer had a "compassionate attitude towards supporting the disadvantaged in society". Dr. Poulter added that he had “no animosity” towards Rishi Sunak but...
Mark Menzies strongly disputes claims he asked a party activist for £5,000 to pay "bad people".
There are few policy reasons to change leader, so lack of campaigning nous of PM who ‘can’t do human’ may be only argumentWith just two days to go before a knife-edge election in Rishi Sunak’s own back yard, it was the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, campaigning in North Yorkshire, where Labour is expected to win the mayoralty. The prime minister wasn’t even elsewhere on the campaign trail, but in London, speaking to editors at a media freedom event.It is a stark contrast to the last time...
More than 50 MPs and peers have written to the Prime Minister asking him to go further to tackle the 'disastrous consequences of a phone-based childhood'.
Every voter in England and Wales will be able to cast a ballot in at least one type of election on May 2, with elections in local councils as well as for mayors in cities including London.
Ashfield's very own moron-herder, and the nation's only Reform UK MP, Lee Anderson, has revealed the shocking results of a new poll which point to him winning a stunning re-election victory.
The former MP, who has died from cancer aged 81, was long an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and even called her 'Mrs T'. He helped to persuade Mrs Thatcher to resign in November 1990.
The 19-year-old tried to save her friend Barnaby Webber, also 19, from Valdo Calocane when he leapt out on the University of Nottingham students from a darkened alley to launch his knife rampage.
The Labour deputy leader lashed out as she faced jibes from Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden and other Tory MPs in the Commons, as they stood in for Mr Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.
By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In her primary victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, first-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Summer Lee not only far outperformed her lone challenger across the District, but she was also on track to far surpass her own win in the primary two years ago. The Associated Press
Why AP called the Pennsylvania 12th District primary for Summer Lee: Race call explained
By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In her primary victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, first-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Summer Lee not only far outperformed her lone challenger across the District, but she was also on track to far surpass her own win in the primary two years ago. The Associated Press