“I was firm with him that I have a mandate to offer people a choice. He reiterated his opposition to that,” Nicola Sturgeon told Skynews after visiting supporters in Dundee on Saturday.Continue reading
“We will get Brexit done on time by the 31st of January, no ifs, no buts, no maybes,” Boris Johnson told cheering supporters later. Continue reading
Pollsters believe that Boris Johnson needs to be more than six points clear of Labour on Thursday to secure a majority.Continue reading
Boris Johnson dodged a question on whether he would resign if he failed to win a majority and dismissed questions suggesting that, after nearly a decade of Conservative rule, he was offering voters little beyond Brexit.Continue reading
“This is the cold, hard evidence that categorically shows the impact Johnson’s damaging Brexit deal will have on large parts of our country,” Jeremy Corbyn said in a speech in London.Continue reading
UK PM Boris Johnson: “All the young people I know – ie those under 30 – are just as avaricious as we flinty Thatcherite yuppies of the 1980s in fact, they have an almost Nigerian interest in money and gadgets of all kinds.”Continue reading
Boris Johnson has ruled out another Scottish referendum but says that if Labour wins next month’s election without a parliamentary majority, it would agree to a vote on independence next year in return for the support of the Scottish National Party.Continue reading
Jeremy Corbyn told the audience: ‘Labour will never use the NHS as a bargaining chip in trade talks with anybody’.Continue reading
Tony Blair: “The unifying sentiment is a desire, bordering on the febrile, to end the mess, to wake from the nightmare. This desire, though completely understandable, is in danger of leading us into a big mistake; and frankly we cannot afford another of those.”Continue reading
Twitter: “We have global rules in place that prohibit behaviour that can mislead people, including those with verified accounts. Any further attempts to mislead people by editing verified profile information – in a manner seen during the UK Election Debate – will result in decisive corrective action”Continue reading
The stakes are high for both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn as they try to win over a Brexit-weary electorate. Both are trying to overcome a mountain of mistrust.Continue reading
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he was putting on hold further cuts in corporation tax and told voters he would pump the money into services such as health instead, addressing a central issue in the Dec. 12 election. “We are postponing further cuts in corporation tax,” Boris Johnson told business leaders at a conference organised by Britain’s main business lobby, the CBI. “This saves 6 billion pounds that we can put into the priorities of the British people, including the NHS (National Health Service),” he said. Britain had been due to cut its corporation tax rate to 17% next year, down from 19% now, which is already one of the lowest among the world’s big industrialised economies. Johnson has faced questions about how he would pay for the extra public spending that he has promised, without ramping up borrowing sharply. In September, his finance minister Sajid Javid announced the biggest increase in day-to-day spending in 15 years in what was widely seen as an attempt to counter the spending promises of the left-wing opposition Labour Party. Johnson’s announcement received a cautious welcome from the head of the CBI. “Postponing further cuts to corporation tax to invest in public services could work for the country if it is backed by further efforts to the costs of doing business and promote growth,” Carolyn Fairbairn said in a statement.Continue reading
Morgan: “And when you are caught – you just don’t have the good grace to say: ‘Yeah, we shouldn’t have done that – I’m sorry’.”Continue reading
“This is a very sensitive matter and in the light of continued speculation, I write to tender my resignation as Secretary of State,” Alun Cairns said in a letter to Boris Johnson.Continue reading
Boris Johnson says millions of people were executed under Josef Stalin and many more perished from abuse and disease in a vast network of prison camps, known as the Gulags. Relatively affluent farmers, known as kulaks, were among the groups targeted.Continue reading
Nigel Farage, the minor-party leader who played a major role in Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, is trying to throw his weight around again in the U.K.’s Brexit-dominated election. Farage on Friday piled the pressure on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, saying his Brexit Party will run against Johnson’s Conservatives across the country in the Dec. 12 early election unless Johnson abandons his divorce deal with the EU. Farage spoke a day after U.S. President Donald Trump barged into the British election campaign, urging his friend Farage to make an electoral pact with Johnson’s Conservatives. Trump told Farage on the Euroskeptic politician’s own radio phone-in show Thursday that he and Johnson would be “an unstoppable force.” Johnson on Friday gently rebuffed Trump’s suggestion and ruled out an electoral pact with Farage. “If I may respectfully say to all our friends around the world … the only way to get this thing done is to vote for us,” Johnson told ITV News. “If you vote for any other party, the risk is you’ll just get Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party, dither and delay.” All 650 seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs in the election that is coming more than two years early, with winners to be chosen by Britain’s 46 million voters. If the Brexit Party runs in only a small number of seats, that would help the Conservatives, who are vying with Farage for the support of Brexit-backing voters. Farage’s party, which was foundedContinue reading
The Conservatives want to leave the EU. Labour want to negotiate their own exit deal and put it to a referendum alongside. Liberal Democrats want to cancel Brexit. Brexit Party are pushing for a ‘Clean Break Brexit’.Continue reading