Nigel Farage's Reform UK party would be the largest party in Parliament if an election was held today, according to a new poll.
New polling has revealed that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is on track to become the largest party in Britain’s Parliament. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party would become the largest party in Parliament if an election were held today, according to a new poll. DETAIL: According to a major poll commissioned by far-left activist group HOPE Not Hate and conducted by research agency Survation, Reform would secure 227 out of the 650 seats in the House of Commons if a general election were held today. A party requires 326 seats to form a majority, meaning that Reform would be the largest party in a hung parliament; that is, one in which no party has enough seats to govern alone. The poll showed the governing…Open
The prospective prime minister’s Monday speech showed no evidence of tackling the causes of the UK’s strangled growth. The post Burnham’s Devolution Schemes Unlikely to Save Britain appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Burnham’s Devolution Schemes Unlikely to Save Britain The prospective prime minister’s Monday speech showed no evidence of tackling the causes of the UK’s strangled growth. UK Special Coverage Andy Burnham, the presumptive prime minister, hasn’t even measured the curtains in Number Ten yet and already he is promising to relocate it. His first Big Speech on the economy Monday in, where else, Manchester, promised to set up a “Number Ten North” in, where else, Manchester. This will be the driving force, he says, of a new devolved UK of the regions. “The nerve centre of a new, rewired Britain.” …Open
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK in the United Kingdom, criticized presumptive Prime Minister Andy Burnham's plans for increased devolution, arguing it won't solve key national issues.
Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, has criticized “Open Borders Andy” Burnham, the likely next Prime Minister, following a flagship speech on Monday. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Nigel Farage , leader of the Reform UK party, criticized presumptive Prime Minister Andy Burnham for his plans to increase devolution , arguing it won’t solve key national issues. Burnham outlined his ten-year plan for Britain in a speech on Monday, ahead of his expected rise to replace the outgoing Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. KEY QUOTE: “What the country wants is immediate action. And I tell you what, they’re not going to get it from Mr. Burnham or, should I say, Open Borders Andy.” – Nigel Farage DETAIL: Farage questioned the…Open
Peter Murrell, the husband of the former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, was sentenced on Tuesday after he admitted to buying a bizarre range of items with the Scottish National Party’s money.
Peter Murrell, the SNP luminary’s estranged husband, pled guilty to embezzling party funds at grand scale. The post Scotland’s Sturgeon Snared in Spendthrift Spouse’s Sleazy Scheme appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Scotland’s Sturgeon Snared in Spendthrift Spouse’s Sleazy Scheme Peter Murrell, the SNP luminary’s estranged husband, pled guilty to embezzling party funds at grand scale. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) “Farthest fall the virtuous with feet of clay.” The nationalist former first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, and her husband, Scottish National Party CEO Peter Murrell, dominated Scottish politics for a decade and arguably came close to breaking up Britain. Their project ended in ignominy Monday, as Murrell was led in handcuffs from the High Court of…Open
Time is running short for the embattled prime minister. The post Starmer Agonistes appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Starmer Agonistes Time is running short for the embattled prime minister. UK Special Coverage Last week, in one of its worst-ever local election results, Labour lost 1,400 seats to Reform UK, lost Wales to the nationalist Plaid Cymru, and failed to prevent the secessionist SNP winning a fifth consecutive term of government in the Scottish Parliament. Keir Starmer’s government was rejected by everyone, everywhere, all at once. Here is one former Labour Party insider, Patrick Maguire, reflecting on the Labour prime minister’s response: [Starmer offers] another eight years of nothingness, of learnt…Open
In the UK today, questions of identity and culture drive political change. The post The British Turn Their Backs on Labour appeared first on The American Conservative .
The latest local elections confirmed what opinion polls had been suggesting for a good while: the collapse of the Labour Party and the extraordinary unpopularity of its leader, Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Up and down the country, from urban to rural, metropolitan to suburban, or Celtic to Saxon, the British people turned their backs on the Labour Party less than two years after it won a landslide victory at the last general election. Reform UK will be able to claim a victory – though perhaps less dominant than they hoped – the Conservative Party continued to suffer losses throughout the country, and the ascendant Green Party have emerged as a real force on British left, albeit not as strongly as some expected. Since the results,…Open
State of the Union: The Scottish National Party is expected to win its fifth consecutive victory in Scotland. The post Labour Suffers Heavy Election Losses, Reform UK Soars appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Labour Party suffered losses in local and regional elections across England and Wales on Thursday while Reform UK, a right-wing populist party led by Nigel Farage, made major gains. Local elections in the United Kingdom are seen as a reflection of the popularity of the ruling party and prime minister. In England, Reform UK has won more than 1,350 council seats so far while Labour has already lost hundreds of seats, while in Wales, Labour lost power for the first time in more than 100 years. The Scottish National Party is expected to win a majority in Scotland, with the party’s leader John Swinney declaring victory on Friday. It will be their fifth consecutive victory in Scotland. Labour’s leader Keir Starmer said that,…Open
The sentencing of Jordan Linden, a former Scottish National Party (SNP) council leader convicted of multiple sexual offenses, comes a day before critical elections for the Scottish government
The sentencing of Jordan Linden, a former Scottish National Party (SNP) council leader convicted of multiple sexual offenses, comes a day before critical elections for the Scottish government . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A former Scottish National Party (SNP) council leader was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of multiple sex offenses, including sexual assault and inappropriate communication with young men and boys. This comes just ahead of crunch elections to the Scottish Parliament—roughly equivalent to a U.S. state legislature—on May 7. WHEN & WHERE: The sentencing took place on Wednesday at Falkirk Sheriff Court in Scotland. DETAIL: Jordan Linden, a former leader of North Lanarkshire Council,…Open
On Thursday, voters across England, Scotland, and Wales head to the polls in the most fragmented set of British elections in living memory — with projections pointing to the simultaneous collapse of two-party politics across all three nations.
On Thursday, voters across England, Scotland, and Wales head to the polls in the most fragmented set of British elections in living memory — with projections pointing to the simultaneous collapse of two-party politics across all three nations. ■ Pulse Points / Reformation Day England — 5,066 council seats are up across 136 local authorities, including all 32 London boroughs and six directly-elected mayors (Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Watford). A recent prediction from polling group ‘More in Common’ found that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could win in excess of 1,400 of these seats, with the Greens picking up just shy of 1,000. The historic “two major parties,” the Conservatives and Labour, would lose…Open