Tories and Labour

Same story or different story? Photo: Dan Kitwood/Scott Olson/Getty Images With Bernie Sanders’s relentless rise, the specter of Jeremy Corbyn now hangs over the Democratic race. At times, it’s uncanny how similar the two left-populist leaders are. An outlier long at odds with his party’s establishment? Check. A legislator with…

Jeb Bush, younger brother of former US President George W Bush, has been mercilessly mocked on Twitter, after accusing the BBC of being “biased” in their news coverage and “incredibly rude to Conservative MPs.” The former 2016 US Republican presidential candidate took to social media on Thursday night to reveal…

Lisa Nandy tonight blasted Sir Keir Starmer and labelled his Brexit policy a 'disaster' as she tried to salvage her Labour leadership campaign. Sir Keir and Ms Nandy engaged in fiery clashes as they and fellow challenger Rebecca Long-Bailey took part in the third TV debate of the race to replace Jeremy…

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Election Donations Revealed Key eyebrow raisers from the figures released by the Electoral Commission this morning: Tories out-raised Labour by £27 million The Lib Dems out-raised Labour by £3 million Brexit Party’s £7 million not too shabby £113,119,000 donated to political parties in 2019 – the largest ever figure… UPDATE: With…

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The British Labour Party recently celebrated its 120th birthday. Lately, that’s all it has had to celebrate. December’s general election shrunk the party’s number of MPs to 202, its lowest level since 1935. And with four more years of Tory rule to come, the candidates fighting to replace the disastrous…

Barring accidents, Keir Starmer will become leader of the Labour Party on Saturday 4 April. It will be a “moment”, as they say: the end of the Corbyn experiment. The change will be taken as a sign that the party is perhaps ready to move on, shift its priorities and compromise…

When he delivers his Budget just 27 days after becoming chancellor, Rishi Sunak will be aware that first Budgets often tell us a lot about those who deliver them. Geoffrey Howe cut taxes in 1979, while George Osborne raised them in 2010. Sunak’s instincts on 11 March will be to…

Opinion18:11 GMT 24.02.2020(updated 18:13 GMT 24.02.2020) Get short URLVoting in the Labour leadership contest has officially got underway. But does the party really have a chance of returning to Number Ten Downing Street any time soon?The former London Mayoral candidate Winston McKenzie shares his views on the matter.   Sputnik: Does…