News Round-Up
14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
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14 January 2025
A ban on puberty blockers brought in by the Tories before the election could be made permanent as the Labour Party takes a harder stance on transgender issues.
Former Chancellor George Osborne has said the Conservative Party must resist chasing Reform voters and instead move back to the political centre ground if it wants to return to power. What nonsense, says Will Jones.
The smashing of the Tories was necessary to allow a genuine Right wing movement to emerge that would actually implement popular conservative policies, says Professor James Allan.
As he left Downing Street, Rishi Sunak apologised for the Conservatives' record in Government. Mark Ellse imagines what he might have said had he apologised for lockdowns and Net Zero.
As the Right goes into opposition for at least the next five years, Joanna Gray takes a look at what it is about conservatism that makes it better than anything the Left has to offer – and no, it's not Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson has warned the Conservatives not to merge with Reform U.K. as he laid out his vision for how they can revive their electoral fortunes.
Keir Starmer's 'loveless landslide' and 'meh-jority' is slammed as the most distorted election result ever as just 20% of eligible voters cast a ballot for the party that now controls 64% of Parliament.
Labour is set to win a landslide with a majority of 170 for Starmer on 410 seats, the exit poll shows. Conservatives slump to 131, Reform on 13 and the Lib Dems on 61. A new Labour era dawns. God help us all.
Reform is on track to win 13 MPs with 17% of the vote, the final major poll of the General Election has predicted. Labour is set to hit 475 seats on 37.6%, despite missing Jeremy Corbyn's figure of 40% in his 2017 loss.
Zadie Smith looks back with glazed eyes on the good old days of Blair, and welcomes the likely dawn of a new Labour era. Prof James Alexander takes the writer to task for her simplistic view of the world.
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