Home News UK Elections 2024: Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party Faces Mounting Challenge As Most Polls Predict Rout For His Party’s 14-Year Rule Polling suggests that Conservatives are only ahead in one age group: people over age 65. (ANI) London: The Conservative Party, which has been in power in the United Kingdom for around 15 years,...
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UK Elections: Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer Hit Temple Trail To Woo British Hindu Voters
The Rishi Sunak-led Tories have been trailing in all pre-election surveys London: On the final weekend of campaigning ahead of the UK general election on Thursday, both Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the man who is fighting for his job at 10 Downing Street – Labour Leader Keir Starmer, have hit the temple trail to...
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UK Reform Leader Nigel Farage’s Speech Interrupted By Banner Mocking Putin Views
Farage is seeking election as a lawmaker, or member of parliament (MP), in Clacton-on-Sea London: A speech being delivered by Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, was interrupted late Saturday when a banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin descended from the ceiling at an election rally. Campaign group Led by Donkeys,...
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UK’s landmark postwar elections: When Thatcher became 1st female PM in 1979
At its heart, Thatcherism represented a total rethink over the role of the state. Image: Shutterstock 3 min read Last Updated : Jun 30 2024 | 1:42 PM IST Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it...
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American and British voters share deep roots. In 2024, they distrust their own leaders, too
DARTFORD – Distrust has settled over the campaign trails in the United States and United Kingdom ahead of July 4 like a soggy summer haze. On that day, British voters will choose a new Parliament in an election expected to finish with a Labour government after 14 years under the Conservatives. Americans across the pond,...
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Tory Remainers are the authors of their party’s defeat
The oddity of European politics is that Britain is moving sharply to the Left while most of the Continent is moving even further to the Right. In Britain, young people and even the middle aged are abandoning Conservatism. Elsewhere in Europe, the young are the pillars of a radical Right-wing upsurge. On the Continent, the...
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Majorca wages new war on British ‘invasion’ as Balearics now ‘lab for tourists’
Representatives from across the political, social and economic spectrum, who met for the first Civil Society Tourism Congress on Wednesday, have agreed on one thing: that the Balearic Islands have exceeded the limits of tourism in terms of volume. While the Forum for Civil Society is made up of well-known critics of the tourism model...
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Donald Trump is going to turn Starmer’s Britain into an international laughing stock
Grandfather Robert Blackstock, a retired engineer from Nottinghamshire, became the “Brenda from Bristol” of this election campaign when he asked Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer during Wednesday night’s TV debate: “Are you two really the best we’ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country?” Like the woman who responded to Theresa...
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Emperor, Empress wrap UK visit with stop at Oxford | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have wrapped up a trip to Britain with a stop in Oxford, where they both studied in their youth. The couple toured the grounds of Balliol College on Friday. The Empress studied there for two years during her time working with the Foreign Ministry. The Emperor previously said that...
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Britain issues legal challenge to ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu
His decision that the ICC “has jurisdiction over Israeli, Palestinian or other nationals who committed crimes in Gaza or the West Bank” was supported by a panel of international legal experts, including several from the UK. In 2021, a deeply divided pre-trial chamber concluded that the court’s jurisdiction extended to Gaza. But the UK says...
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BBC Question Time special live: Nigel Farage faces TV audience
The key lines from Green co-leader Adrian Ramsaypublished at 22:01 22:01 Image source, PA Media Sacrifices or gains? Right from the off, Ramsay was pressed on his policies – with the audience asking what they needed to sacrifice to hit the party’s pledges. Ramsay pushed back, saying the UK needed “big changes” in the NHS,...
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Ballot box binge: Votes loom in coming days from Mongolia to Iran to Britain in a busy election year
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press Even in a busy year of elections around the world, the next few days stand out. Over the next week, voters go to the polls in fledgling democracies like Mauritania and Mongolia, the Islamic Republic of Iran and in stalwart democracies — former imperial powers — Britain and France. While...