Polls ‘do not point to re-election’ for Conservatives Rishi Sunak’s personal popularity has not yet brought an improvement in his party’s ratings, according to Ipsos. The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022
Health and wealth divides in UK worsening despite ‘levelling up’ drive, report finds Exclusive: economic inactivity due to sickness at highest level since records began, with north, Wales and Northern Ireland disproportionately affected The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022
Conservatives urged to suspend MP facing rape allegations Tory colleagues have reported accusations against backbencher to the police and the party The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2022
Labour wins Chester by-election (but about that swing...) The Labour Party has won the City of Chester by-election with 61.2% of the vote to the Conservatives’ 22.4%. That is a big victory and represents the Tories’ lowest share of the vote in the constituency since 1832. For context, this is a seat David Cameron’s party won in 2010. Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2022
The Conservative Party are polling at their lowest in fifteen years The Conservatives’ popularity has crashed to its lowest point in 15 years as it battles a major lack of trust over its management of the economy, a new poll reveals. Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2022
Half of Britons think Suella Braverman doing bad job as home secretary Poll finds only one fifth of Tory voters think Suella Braverman is doing a good job The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2022
Conservatives’ popularity crashes to its lowest point in 15 years The Conservatives’ popularity has crashed to its lowest point in 15 years as it battles a major lack of trust over its management of the economy, a new poll reveals. Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2022
Lib Dems say quarter of property owners fear losing their home Ed Davey sets out plans for mortgage protection fund that would provide grants of up to £300 a month The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022
Tories could be plotting move 'even further' to the right amid 'new Ukip' warning from MP THE Conservatives could be about to lurch even further to the right by cracking down on immigration, critics have claimed as disquiet grows within… The National (Scotland) · Nov 4, 2022
Bury’s longest serving councillor set to avoid being thrown out for failing to attend meetings Yvonne Wright has not attended a council meeting since May 27 Manchester Evening News · Nov 4, 2022
Tories will find it ‘extremely difficult’ to win election, says polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the Conservatives are still a long way behind Labour despite some recovery under Rishi Sunak. The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2022
Councillor joins Labour after quitting Conservatives Coun Bev Fletcher, who has been sitting as an Independent on Bolton Council since resigning from the Tories last year, has now joined the opposition Manchester Evening News · Oct 31, 2022
Rishi Sunak: is it legitimate for the Conservatives to continue in government without an election? A constitutional scholar explains It is only right to explain why I’m standing here as your new prime minister. The Conversation · Oct 25, 2022
Have the 'decency' to call a general election, former Tory member tells incoming PM Rishi Sunak Marc Evans, a nurse, described the Tory party as an 'utter disgrace' and said Mr Sunak does not have a mandate Wales Online · Oct 25, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022 Will Rishi Sunak find the fractured Tory party is ungovernable? Despite public displays of loyalty by former opponents, the new PM’s honeymoon period is likely to be brief
Manchester Evening News · Oct 24, 2022 "He has no mandate": Greater Manchester MPs react to Rishi Sunak becoming the new Prime Minister The region's Labour MPs are demanding an election as Greater Manchester Tories welcome their new leader
The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2022 Rishi Sunak: the leader who foresaw the financial chaos he now inherits The former chancellor will become the first non-white prime minister, the first Hindu in the top job and also arguably the richest occupant of No 10.
Al Jazeera · Oct 24, 2022 How the UK political crisis affects the opposition Labour party? For the first time in years, Labour has a realistic chance of coming to power in the next general election.
The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2022 Boris Johnson tells allies he’s ‘up for’ leadership race as he rushes back to UK Former PM who quit after a series of scandals vows he is ‘up for it’
The Conversation · Oct 21, 2022 Liz Truss resigns: so why isn't the UK having an election? Liz Truss resigned as the Conservative party leader just 45 days after being elected to that position. She was forced out by her backbenchers because of a disastrously misjudged mini-budget, concerns about her competency and a catastrophic collapse in the Conservatives’ poll ratings. She is now destined to become the…
The Conversation · Oct 19, 2022 There’s something wrong with British politics. It’s called the Conservative Party The current turmoil in British politics needs to be understood not just as a response to Liz Truss’s short time as prime minister, but as the result of problems within the governing Conservative Party since it came to power in 2010.
Tribune News Service · Oct 19, 2022 Truss says she is a fighter, not a quitter as she faces MPs Embattled U.K. premier Liz Truss said she is “a fighter, not a quitter,” as she faced lawmakers for the first time since firing her finance minister and junking most of her economic program just weeks after announcing it.
Nottingham Post · Oct 19, 2022 Broxtowe Borough Council’s phone system criticised as 'abysmal failure' One councillor said there was a “long list” of officers who constituents could “never get through to”
The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022 Liz Truss' waning power brings political plots, and jokes This has not been a good week for Liz Truss
The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2022 Truss could be gone ‘within days or weeks’, say Tory MPs after PM ditches chancellor Expectation that new chancellor Jeremy Hunt will rewrite Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget