London Mayor Sadiq Khan has expressed alarm over polls suggesting the Labour Party could lose control of several borough councils in the British capital in the English local elections on May 7.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has expressed alarm over polls suggesting the Labour Party could lose control of several borough councils in the British capital in the English local elections on May 7. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is afraid that Britain’s ruling Labour Party, of which he is a member, will lose its dominant position in the capital in municipal elections set for May 7. Khan expressed concern that his party could, according to polling released this week , lose up to 14 of the city’s borough councils, with Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and Zack Polanski’s far-left Green Party set to make considerable gains. DETAIL: At present, Labour controls 21 of London’s 32 borough councils. However, according to…Open
Will teen suffrage give left-wing educators proxy ballots? The post Indoctrination Nation: Teaching British Kids Which Way To Vote appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Indoctrination Nation: Teaching British Kids Which Way To Vote Will teen suffrage give left-wing educators proxy ballots? TakiMag I was once a schoolteacher in England, where it was drummed into us during training that it was wise to join a teachers’ union, lest one of the students, in revenge for poor grades, falsely accuse us of impregnating them behind the bike sheds during lunchtime. But which particular outfit to join? Certainly not the NUT (National Union of Teachers), the nation’s largest and most militant teaching union, whose name was apt: the far-left group contained more nuts than a constipated squirrel. …Open
The Starmer government is more interested in anticapitalist posturing than in helping the British people. The post UK Labour Refuses to Relieve the Energy Crisis appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage UK Labour Refuses to Relieve the Energy Crisis The Starmer government is more interested in anticapitalist posturing than in helping the British people. UK Special Coverage When Labour was restored to government in July 2024 after nearly a decade and a half in the political wilderness, Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised that economic growth would be his government’s number one priority. Chancellor Rachel Reeves conducted seminars with prominent business figures, insisting that Labour understood that businesses must make profits to survive and invest. Starmer said “wealth creation” was Labour’s…Open
No UK political party has an answer to the crisis. The post The British Energy Crunch appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The British Energy Crunch No UK political party has an answer to the crisis. UK Special Coverage The British nation is already burdened by crushing energy costs and is bracing for a dramatic increase in that load. To gauge the impact of coming energy price rises in Britain, you must first understand what is sometimes called the “unriching” of the UK. This is a supposedly wealthy country which no longer feels wealthy. Real wages have barely risen in real terms since before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. Brits have been through the longest pay freeze since the Napoleonic Wars. So the average…Open
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Britain’s extreme-left Green Party won a historic parliamentary by-election (special election) in the Gorton and Denton constituency (electoral district) in Manchester, England, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s left-wing Labour Party crashing to third place behind Nigel Farage’s Reform Party in a seat Labour had held for nearly a century. WHO […] The post UK PM Vows to Stay in Power Despite Crashing to Third Place in Special Election. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Britain’s extreme-left Green Party won a historic parliamentary by-election (special election) in the Gorton and Denton constituency (electoral district) in Manchester, England, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s left-wing Labour Party crashing to third place behind Nigel Farage’s Reform Party in a seat Labour had held for nearly a century. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Labour leader Keir Starmer, Green Party leader Zack Polanski, winning candidate Hannah Spencer, and Reform Party candidate Matt Goodwin. WHEN & WHERE: The by-election in Gorton and Denton, Greater Manchester, took place on Thursday, following the resignation of former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Andrew Gwynne. KEY QUOTE: “I will keep on…Open
Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. The post Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. UK Special Coverage It is an old adage in war and politics that, if you’re going to take out your leader, you’d better not miss. You also need to be sure that the politicians who’ve said they’ll support you in a palace coup are serious people. Unfortunately, the Scottish Labour grandee, Anas Sarwar, failed on both counts. Yesterday he voiced what many Labour MPs have been saying privately for months and called openly for the beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. “Too many mistakes,” he…Open