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The game is up for the SNP
Every election is historic in its own way, and of course the top line this 2024 general election is Labour’s…
Looking to the past won’t help the Tories navigate their future
These are going to be dark days of introspection for Conservatives. And, as they try to make sense of the…
Will the Tories finally get the message?
Can it just be a coincidence that most of the leading figures of the Tory left lost their seats, while…
Why Jews returned to Labour
Two weeks before the general election, the Jewish Chronicle commissioned a Survation poll to map the voting intentions of British…
The SNP’s catastrophic defeat is an opportunity for Scotland
Like the wider UK result, the SNP getting a hammering in yesterday’s general election was largely predicted by the polls.…
The Tory blame game begins
As Labour declares victory in the general election, Rishi Sunak is on course to preside over the Tories’ worst ever general…
Full list: Rees-Mogg and Mordaunt among big beasts felled in Tory wipeout
They’ve been some of the most dominant figures in British politics of the past five years – but now they’re…
We will govern as a changed Labour party
Keir Starmer has given a speech in Central London early this morning after winning the 2024 general election. Below is…
Who won the general election? Results in maps and charts
Labour has won an historic landslide in yesterday’s general election. The latest forecasts expect Keir Starmer to come to power…
Are the Lib Dems and Reform really right to feel happy?
It’s a disaster, a cataclysm, a wipeout. Half the cabinet will lose their seats, and Labour will be in power…
This exit poll is truly devastating for the Tories
If Tories find some comfort in getting into three figures in the exit poll, they are kidding themselves. Not only…
The election result could kill Scottish independence for a generation
The exit poll puts the SNP on ten seats. That is very much at the low end of the spectrum…
Labour majority of 170, says exit poll
The polls have closed and the exit poll is in. The BBC exit poll projects that Labour will win a…
The plot to stop Marine Le Pen’s National Rally
This week France has drifted from surprise to confusion and panic as Sunday’s second round vote approaches. The bien-pensant centre-left weekly Nouvel Obs’…
This election is a pale imitation of democracy
Does anyone else feel like they’re living through a simulation of democracy? All the apparatus of democracy has been laid…
The Tories don’t deserve my vote – but they’ll still get it
Sometimes I feel like the only person in Britain who is intending to vote Conservative. I know this can’t be…
Why German carmakers don’t want EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles
I recant. On a number of occasions I have asserted that the European Union is run by lobbyists acting on behalf…
The problem with outdated Commonwealth voting rights
It’s time to decolonise Britain. And no, I’m not talking about tearing down statues of Victorian imperialists, or running roughshod over the school…
Stanley Johnson and the trouble with Green Tories
I have a theory about intra-Johnson family politics. Some time in 2017 or 2018 Stanley agreed to shut up about…
What would a Labour landslide mean for parliament?
As Rishi Sunak faces electoral oblivion today, his final gambit before polling day is to threaten voters with the risk…
The Tories: a requiem
And now the end is near. Barring a polling error of galactic proportions, we are hours away from the final…
Captain Tom’s daughter disqualified from charity
Uh oh. Amid the longstanding inquiry into Captain Sir Tom Moore’s family, one rather damning conclusion has so far been…
The United States cannot afford a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. president
In 1927, Sigmund Freud published a book about religion called Die Zukunft einer Illusion (The Future of an Illusion). As a contribution to…
Last YouGov election poll points to Tory wipeout
The final polls are rolling in ahead of voters going to the polls tomorrow. On Tuesday night, Survation published its…
The Sun backs Labour
Talk about an eleventh hour endorsement. This afternoon, one long-anticipated announcement dropped less than a day ahead of the general…
