News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
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.
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.
Reform UK has reported Channel 4 to the police for "electoral interference" over the secret filming of a "planted" racist activist. The activist himself says he is "glad" and that the "truth will come out in the papers".
A Muslim entrepreneur has donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Reform U.K., saying migrants who came to Britain legally are dismayed that “we have lost control of our borders”.
Reform U.K. has overtaken the Tories among over-55s, a new poll shows, as former Minister Nadine Dorries says the Conservative Party will "probably disappear" at the General Election.
Nigel Farage has declared he will stand to be a Reform MP as he takes over as Reform leader from Richard Tice. A former Tory Cabinet Minister says it's "bad news for the Conservatives".
As Rishi Sunak fires the starting pistol on the 2024 General Election, voters are starting to look at where the parties stand on the issues. While manifestoes are yet to appear, here's what we know so far.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Nike's woke update of the England flag, Reform UK dropping a candidate after a Hope Not Hate hit-piece and Candace Owens getting fired from the Daily Wire.
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