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UK Local Elections Test Big Two Parties

Britain's two main parties are tipped to suffer losses Thursday in local elections likely to confirm the rise of hard-right populists and portend the splintering of a century-long political duopoly.

International Business Times · May 1, 2025

It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025

‘Country first, party second,’ says Starmer. So why menace Labour members who actually believe that?

Two party activists in Sussex who worked with the Lib Dems last year to kick out the Tories have been expelled. This is horribly short-sighted, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2025

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Elon Musk considers funding Nigel Farage's populist party, a move that could shake up UK politics

British politician Nigel Farage says talks are underway about Elon Musk making a hefty donation to Farage’s party Reform U.K. The Times of London reported it could be as much as 100 million pounds ($127 million), which would be the largest political donation in U.K. history

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2024

There's no honeymoon for new UK leader Keir Starmer after a summer of unrest

Keir Starmer hasn't had much of a summer honeymoon

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2024

From humiliation to annihilation: could this election mean the end of the Tory party as we know it?

Even before the events of last week, the party’s prospects were grim. Now some believe it faces a wipeout that would reshape the UK political landscape

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2024

The Tories’ war on foreign students isn’t for the good of the country – it’s about saving their own skins

This dying government is happy to see universities in crisis, the economy damaged and soft power lost, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2024

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Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs

After Natalie Elphicke’s welcome, would Labour turn any Tory dregs away? This is beneath the dignity of a party on the verge of power, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2024

The EU quandary: Labour’s efforts to build good relations and keep red lines

Top team has narrower list of asks for Brussels after Starmer’s determination to take heat out of Brexit for his party

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2024

Mega-poll predicts disaster for Tories – but reality could be even worse

YouGov poll appears to play down impact of tactical voting, and Telegraph’s analysis assumes party can win back Reform votes

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024

Sunak’s hoped for autumn election may come with a transatlantic distraction

Upcoming US presidential election and a resurgent Trump could cause a headache for all British parties

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2024

After years in opposition, Britain's Labour Party senses it's on the verge of regaining power

Members of Britain’s opposition Labour Party are gathering for their annual conference with an unfamiliar feeling: optimism

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2023

Tories’ 2019 NHS promises may come back to bite them

Party’s success in ‘neutralising’ issue of public services in election campaigns is unlikely to work again

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

Tories face frosty reception in Manchester as future of HS2 in doubt

Any rollback of' levelling up commitments in north could anger ‘red wall’ voters who swung to Conservatives

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2023

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The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jul 15, 2023

A Wilt Chamberlain documentary used artificial intelligence to re-create his voice. The family is (mostly) thrilled to hear him again.

PHILADELPHIA — Olin Chamberlain called his uncle during the NBA playoffs in the early 1990s as Michael Jordan was making another run toward a championship. Chamberlain, then a teenage basketball player in Los Angeles, couldn’t call M.J., but he could get Wilt on the horn.

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2023

Ange Postecoglou’s first task: dealing with lederhosen-based Kane chatter

In today’s Football Daily: Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs to-do list, Larne and more

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2023

Boris Johnson circus derails Sunak’s tactics for Tory revival

The ‘honking pudding’ is back, putting in peril what most Conservatives thought was their only escape from electoral oblivion

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2023

A campaign against inheritance tax led by a multimillionaire? These really are desperate times for the Tories

While ministers look to the Telegraph for policies and Nadhim Zahawi fights for the status quo, Labour has a bold, serious vision, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2023

Thursday briefing: How parties will fare at the local elections – and where they go from here

In today’s newsletter: Will the Tories tank? Will Labour really gain? Here’s a guide to make sense of the local elections, and what it means for the next general elections

Financial Times · Apr 30, 2023

How education became the new faultline in British politics

A growing number of voters are graduates and they are becoming less likely to back the Conservatives, threatening to redraw the country’s electoral map

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2023

‘I think he’s done’: Boris Johnson’s support nosedives after bruising week

Ignominy of committee appearance and feeble Brexiter rebellion suggest ex-PM has run out of road, but allies disagree

The Conversation · Feb 23, 2023

The news about Toronto Mayor John Tory's affair destroyed his carefully cultivated public image

The Toronto Star broke news on Feb. 10 about Mayor John Tory’s extramarital affair with an employee in his office. An hour later, he had announced his resignation, and by the end of the following week, he was gone from the mayor’s office.

The Independent UK · Feb 11, 2023

Toronto Mayor John Tory resigns over affair with former staffer

‘I recognise that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part,’ Mayor John Tory says

The Independent UK · Feb 11, 2023

Toronto mayor steps down after affair with ex-staffer

The mayor of Canada’s largest city has stepped down after after acknowledging he had an affair with a former staffer

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2023

Sunak refuses to even utter the word crisis. But how else to describe his first 100 days?

Inertia on the NHS and obstinacy on strikes have left the equivocating PM clinging to a life raft, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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