Helen Morgan, the Lib Dem candidate, won 17,957 votes, ahead of the Conservatives’ Neil Shastri-Hurst, on 12,032, a majority of 5,925. Labour’s Ben Wood was third, with 3,686 votes. Turnout was 46.3%. The calamitous collapse in Conservative support – a 34% swing in a seat where they had a near-23,000 majority in 2019 – will prompt significant jitters among many Tory MPs, and is likely to raise...
Jennifer Arcuri has reportedly admitted having an affair with Boris Johnson after allegations that he used his position as London mayor to get the businesswoman favourable treatment. The prime minister avoided a criminal investigation after the police watchdog found no evidence that he influenced the payment of thousands of pounds of public money to Arcuri, or secured her participation in foreign...
The tampon tax has been abolished after the government honoured its March commitment to remove VAT on women’s sanitary products. But the campaigner who played a pivotal role in the drive to axe the tax has accused the government of using the issue as a political football, after politicians said it had been scrapped thanks to Brexit. Existing EU law prevented member states from reducing VAT below...
On the night of 10 November 1986, more than 2,000 men descended on Ulster Hall, a grand Victorian concert venue in the centre of Belfast, for an invitation-only event organised by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). They had been bussed into the city from across Northern Ireland to protest against the Anglo-Irish agreement, a treaty that gave Dublin an advisory role in the government of the...
With just four weeks left in No. 10, rumours are swirling about Boris Johnson’s future plans. Will he quit the Commons or face down his critics on the Privileges Committee? Make a mint on the speaking circuit or champion Kyiv’s cause? With debts, costs and childcare bills, one thing’s for sure: Boris’s next job will probably pay far better than the extra £79,000 he gets to be PM on top of his...
The 42-year-old resigned on June, 26, 2021 after his affair with his aide Gina Coladangelo was exposed. Who is Matt Hancock?Matthew Hancock, 43, replaced Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary on July 9, 2018. He was first an economist, then became the economic advisor at the Bank Of England. Mr Hancock entered the field of politics in 2005 as the chief of staff to George Osborne, the shadow chancellor...
Rishi Sunak’s status as favourite to become the next Tory leader and prime minister has again put his wealth in the spotlight, after his wife’s non-domiciled tax status almost scuppered his leadership chances earlier this year. According to The Sunday Times, Sunak became a “multimillionaire in his mid-twenties”. He was a partner at the hedge fund TCI, where bosses “shared nearly £100m after an...
Keir Starmer is on course for another electoral battering at the Batley and Spen by-election next month, according to a new constituency poll. The new survey of the “red wall” seat published by Survation found the Tories taking the West Yorkshire constituency with 47 per cent of the vote. Labour would trail in second place on 41 per cent of the vote, while former Labour and Respect MP George...
Boris Johnson is on the receiving end of knives, so will Britain’s shredded public realm be. It would be an error to presume that Tory MPs have had a sudden revelation about the grade-A charlatan they voluntarily installed in No 10. After all, he was previously sacked twice for lying, conspired to beat up a journalist and whipped up Islamophobic bigotry by comparing veiled Muslim women to...
Tom Tugendhat Tugendhat is a Conservative Party politician who is currently working as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Since 2015, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge and Malling. Likewise, Tugendhat served in the British Army as a Territorial Army officer before entering politics. Learn About Anissia Tugendhat: Tom Tugendhat Wife Anissia Morel Tugenhadt is...