News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Keir Starmer says he will never withdraw from the ECHR because there is "no need" and Rishi Sunak did not disagree, despite it being the reason he failed to stop the boats. Nigel Farage says it's time to ask the people.
'Populists' like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are a "threat to democracy", chant the mainstream media. In fact, they are just reminding our politicians what they are supposed to be doing, says Prof James Alexander.
Amid the most dramatic week in U.S. politics for years, the petty British media appear to have nothing better to do than play gotcha with Nigel Farage. What a pathetic spectacle, says Laurie Wastell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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