News Round-Up
27 April 2025
by Will Jones
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Kemi Badenoch's new Shadow Education Minister, Neil O'Brien, backed keeping schools closed during Covid lockdowns and said Prof Sunetra Gupta and other lockdown sceptics "have a hell of a lot to answer for".
With Kemi Badenoch now at the helm, the Conservatives must fearlessly launch a Restoration to undo New Labour's radical changes and restore parliamentary sovereignty, says David Starkey.
Kemi Badenoch has been announced as the new Conservative Party leader, defeating Robert Jenrick by 56.6% to 43.4% in a ballot of party members.
According to politics professor James Alexander, the dirty little secret of British politics is the leader of the Labour Party can never be a women. If that happened, all hell would break loose.
An Albanian wanted for murder in his home country has won the right to remain in the U.K. under the European Convention on Human Rights, renewing calls for the U.K. to quit the treaty.
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick are through to the final two of the Tory leadership contest as a shock ballot of MPs dumps out the frontrunner James Cleverly.
Robert Jenrick has found himself in an early pole position in the Tory leadership race as he topped the first round ballot – as Priti Patel became the first to be knocked out.
A fresh YouGov survey reveals the Shadow Housing and Communities Secretary is pulling ahead in the race to replace Rishi Sunak, outstripping Tom Tugendhat by a commanding eight points.
In a post-election misery fest, the talking points are the injustice of Labour winning with just 20% of the vote, the even-more-outrageous French election result and Noel Gallagher's glorious anti-Glasto rant.
The story of this election isn't Britain swerving the global populist revolt. The two centrist parties polled their lowest share of the vote since 1918. Starmer's premiership will be the last gasp of the technocracy.
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