If you want a pro-EU Labour Party, don’t vote for them tomorrow

2 months, 1 week ago

Voters now have a real choice between two clear political paths

As the United States prepares for a landmark election on Tuesday, British politics also stands at a pivotal moment. After Rachel Reeves’s “tax, spend and borrow” Budget and the choice of a right-wing Tory leader in Kemi Badenoch, who rather strangely believes her party “talked right, but governed left” before losing July’s election, both main parties have arguably edged away …

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6 months ago

Mail on Sunday Comment: Starmer must resist any attempts to drag us back into the EU

Daily Mail

Most Labour voters believe that the question of Britain's EU membership is not settled. Former leader of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn pictured with Sir Keir Starmer in 2019 The fascinating gathering of the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace was originally convened by Rishi Sunak Labour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria wave to …

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6 months, 1 week ago

DANIEL HANNAN: If Labour win today, I warn you not to own a home, run a business, drive a car, save money, turn on your heating or rely on your pension. But the good news is that with this tactical vo

Daily Mail

What has Sir Keir Starmer done to deserve a super-majority? Starmer’s own approval ratings are dismal: polls by Ipsos and YouGov in May had it at minus 18 and minus 20 points respectively n other areas, like Ashfield in Nottinghamshire – currently held by ex-Tory Lee Anderson, now with Reform UK – a vote for Nigel Farage’s party may be …

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6 months, 1 week ago

If you want uncontrolled immigration, mandatory wokery and kow-towing to Brussels, then go right ahead and vote for Starmer: BORIS JOHNSON's rousing rally cry to disaffected Tories

Daily Mail

Good evening everyone and can I say how grateful I am for everything you have been doing and for coming so late tonight – way beyond Keir Starmer's bedtime, we are told. Good evening everyone and can I say how grateful I am for everything you have been doing and for coming so late tonight – way beyond Keir Starmer's …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

‘No way I can vote Labour’: Will pro-Palestine Brits sway the UK election?

Al Jazeera

Despite raging protests, those who are abandoning Labour over Starmer’s position are unlikely to affect the outcome of the general election. “If you don’t vote for a ceasefire, you’ve lost my vote.” Flynn’s London constituency, Vauxhall and Camberwell Green, is a safe Labour seat. The Greens also say they want to “redouble efforts” for the release of Israeli captives from …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

European Union leaders agree on top officials who will be the face of world’s largest trading bloc

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders signed off on a trio of top appointments for their shared political institutions on Thursday, reinstalling German conservative Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission for another five years. At the side of von der Leyen, who heads the EU’s executive branch, would be two new faces: Antonio Costa of Portugal as …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Sunak urges voters not to hand Labour a ‘blank cheque’ by choosing Reform

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rishi Sunak has insisted that voting for Reform UK would …

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7 months ago

The Latest | Europeans go to the polls on the final day of voting for EU elections

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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Voters across the European Union are going to the polls on …

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7 months ago

Millions will vote on Europe's super Sunday, with surveys suggesting a shift to the right

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Voters are heading to the …

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7 months ago

What's at stake in the European Parliament election that concludes Sunday? FAQs

India TV News

Brussels: Nearly 400 million European Union citizens have been going to polls this week to elect members of the European Parliament, or MEPs, in one of the biggest global democratic events. One of the biggest questions is whether European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will remain in charge as the public face of the EU. With 176 seats out …

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7 months ago

Dutch EU vote exit poll puts pro-Europe parties on top

Dutch News

The GroenLinks-PvdA alliance is set to be the biggest Dutch group in the new-look European parliament with the far-right PVV polling in second place, according to the NOS exit poll. The actual Dutch results will be published on Sunday evening, but the exit poll suggests the left-wing alliance will take eight of the 31 Dutch parliamentary seats, while the PVV …

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7 months ago

Dutch EU vote exit poll puts pro-Europe parties on top

Dutch News

The GroenLinks-PvdA alliance is set to be the biggest Dutch group in the new-look European parliament with the far-right PVV polling in second place, according to the NOS exit poll. The actual Dutch results will be published on Sunday evening, but the exit poll suggests the left-wing alliance will take eight of the 31 Dutch parliamentary seats, while the PVV …

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7 months ago

Left-leaning parties lead as far right surges in Netherlands’ EU elections

Al Jazeera

Exit polls show surge in support for populist Geert Wilders and his anti-immigration party after victory in national election last year. Left-leaning parties in the Netherlands are projected to have narrowly won the most seats in the country’s election for the European Parliament, even as the anti-immigration party of populist far-right nationalist Geert Wilders made huge gains. The result suggests …

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7 months ago

Early European parliament election results point to hard-Right vote faltering

The Telegraph

The hard-Right appeared to falter in the first vote of the EU elections as exit polls showed a Left-wing coalition winning the top spot in the Netherlands. The so-called GroenLinks-PvdA coalition is led by Labour’s Frans Timmermans, who has been dubbed the EU’s “climate pope”, and the Green’s Bas Eickhout. The coalition will win eight of the Netherland’s 31 seats …

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7 months ago

Google Doodle turns the spotlight on European Union Elections 2024 set to begin today

Live Mint

Google Doodle Today: In the EU Elections 2024 set to begin today, Thursday, June 6, 27 countries will vote to elect the next European Union parliament. All about European Union Elections A total of 27 countries of the European Union will join the European elections set to begin today. Nearly 270 million people will cast their vote to election 720 …

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7 months ago

Netherlands kicks off 4 days of European Union elections across 27 nations

LA Times

Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders of the PVV, or Party for Freedom, casts his ballot for the European election in The Hague on Thursday, the first day of continentwide voting. Having sent shock waves around Europe six months ago by becoming the biggest party in the Dutch national parliament, he now wants to build on that popularity and set the tone …

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7 months ago

European elections: How will the vote work and what’s at stake?

Al Jazeera

Far-right parties are expected to do well and could gain a stronger foothold in the European Parliament. But their “super grand coalition”, which includes liberal parties in the RE group, will likely lose seats due to public discontent in France with President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party. Laszlo Andor, secretary-general of the Brussels-based think tank Foundation for European Progressive Studies, said …

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7 months, 1 week ago

What to know as Conservatives and Labour vie for votes 1 week into Britain's election campaign

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7 months, 1 week ago

What’s at stake in the European Parliament election that concludes Sunday?

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — Nearly 400 million European Union citizens have been going to polls this week to elect members of the European Parliament, or MEPs, in one of the biggest global democratic events. One of the biggest questions is whether European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will remain in charge as the public face of the EU. FILE - European …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Starmer: I served Corbyn – but I never thought he’d win

The Telegraph

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he never thought Jeremy Corbyn would win the 2019 general election and only served in his shadow cabinet to stop Conservative Brexit plans. Speaking on Keir Starmer: Up Close - Tonight, which airs on ITV1 on Thursday, Sir Keir declined to answer whether he wanted Mr Corbyn to be prime minister, but said: “I didn’t …

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1 year ago

‘Beginning of the end’ for EU as we know it after surge in hard-Right support

The Telegraph

Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban will lead their hard-Right parties to victory in next year’s European parliament elections, polls have predicted. More than a third of all MEPs are predicted to be at the very least critical of the EU in a European parliament that has long been dominated by pro-EU groups – up from …

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1 year ago

Labour is hiring an army of Remainers to 'drag us back into the EU', Lee Anderson claims

Daily Mail

Labour is recruiting an army of Remainer candidates to 'drag us back into the EU', it was claimed last night. Analysis of Labour candidate selections suggests that more than a quarter are formally endorsed by the Labour Movement for Europe, which is pushing for the party to negotiate access to the EU's single market. Mr Hartley said last year he …

Brexit Labour Candidate Lee Anderson

1 year, 1 month ago

Europe’s far-right populists buoyed by Wilders’ win in Netherlands, hoping the best is yet to come

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — If ever the hard right in Europe needed a set of jumper cables to rev up their electoral engine again in the wake of last month’s major setback in Poland, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands provided it. “All of Europe wants a political turnaround!” said Alice Weidel, the leader of German far-right pary AfD, or Alternative for Germany, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Despite Geert Wilders’ win, the Netherlands is still hard no on Nexit

The Telegraph

The Netherlands is not on course to leave the European Union, despite Geert Wilders’ landslide victory in the Dutch elections on Wednesday. Mr Wilders is a veteran eurosceptic and put a binding Nexit referendum in his Freedom Party manifesto before recording a shock first win for the hard-Right in a general election in the Netherlands. Scenting a chance of taking …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Anyone but them’: True-blue Tory voters see red to hand Labour historic Selby by-election

The Independent

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1 year, 6 months ago

Over 40% of voters believe Labour will reverse Brexit

The Independent

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1 year, 7 months ago

European Union elections set for June 2024

The Hindu

More than 400 million European voters will choose a new five-year EU parliament between June 6 and 9 next year, the EU presidency announced Wednesday. Elections in the EU’s 27 member states will decide the makeup of the roughly 700-seat assembly, charged with overseeing European legislation. The current president, Ursula von der Leyen, has not confirmed that she will seek …

European

1 year, 9 months ago

No more delusions – chaos at the Port of Dover shows it’s time to face the harsh realities of Brexit

The Independent

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1 year, 9 months ago

Labour body to vote on motion to block Corbyn from standing for party

The Independent

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2 years, 2 months ago

The boss of Next, Lord Simon Wolfson, is right – this isn’t the Brexit we wanted

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2 years, 6 months ago

Wakefield voters chose Labour – the Tories should be honest about why

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2 years, 7 months ago

EU court says UK residents in EU nations can’t vote there

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that British citizens living long-term in the 27 EU member countries have no right to vote or stand for office in the bloc unless they have obtained a European nationality. The ruling came in what was seen as a test case for the rights of U.K citizens who continue to live …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Keir Starmer has forced me to do something unthinkable with my vote

The Independent

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4 years ago

Why I’m voting against the Brexit deal with the EU

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4 years ago

Supporting the Brexit deal is the first stage of the rebuilding process

The Independent

The House of Commons votes on Wednesday on the trade agreement with the European Union. Their arguments for doing so differ, with the DUP’s Brexit spokesperson, Sammy Wilson, insisting that they will vote against “as a point of principle and not because we supported a no deal option”. Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that the party will back the deal, …

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4 years ago

By criticising the Brexit deal and then backing it, Labour is neglecting the duty of the opposition

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4 years, 1 month ago

Brexit: Labour should vote for an EU trade deal, says union boss Len McCluskey

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4 years, 1 month ago

Brexit: Keir Starmer signals Labour may back EU trade deal in Commons vote

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4 years, 1 month ago

Labour shouldn’t vote for any Boris Johnson Brexit deal – here’s why

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4 years, 9 months ago

Neither Blairite nor Corbynista, Keir Starmer is the only hope of uniting faction-ridden Labour

The Independent

Confirmed as new Labour leader on Saturday, Keir Starmer won because enough of the party’s members decided they wanted to win after four painful electoral defeats. Without criticising Corbyn, Starmer led Labour’s crab-like move towards embracing a referendum on the Brexit deal, against the leader’s initial wishes. The real Starmer is neither Blairite nor Corbynista; he’s on the soft left, …

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4 years, 10 months ago

The next leader needs vision if Labour is to be more than a protest party

The Independent

If you have a vote in the Labour leadership election, The Independent will refrain from advising you how to cast it. Boris Johnson was criticised for running a “safe” campaign for his party’s leadership last year, and Sir Keir deserves the same criticism. Refusing to “trash” New Labour’s record in government while also refusing to say anything bad about Mr …

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4 years, 10 months ago

We are a little wiser now about what the Labour leadership contenders stand for

The Independent

We hope that you, the reader, will agree that this is a worthwhile exercise. Here, Sir Keir operates mostly at the highest level of generality: “Peace, justice, equality and dignity for all.” Of these values, his article suggests equality is the most important, but he says nothing about how it is to be achieved except to talk about the “radical …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Our radical socialist tradition must remain at the heart of Labour

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4 years, 10 months ago

Believe it or not, Keir Starmer may find it surprisingly easy to unite the Labour Party

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4 years, 11 months ago

From London to Boston and Warrington, Britons mark Brexit in style

Daily Mail

Britons last night toasted in a new era for the UK outside the European Union with parties, pub crawls and rallies across the country. Millions of commemorative 50 pence coins go into circulation Ex-MEP Nigel Farage, who has spent decades campaigning to leave the EU, is planning a large rally in nearby Parliament Square - one of several pro-Brexit parties …

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4 years, 11 months ago

I couldn't bring myself to vote for the EU's Brexit bill – Remainers like us cannot give up the fight for Europe

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4 years, 11 months ago

All Dutch MEPs to vote for the Brexit, if somewhat reluctantly

NL Times

All 26 Dutch members of the European Parliament will be voting for the Brexit on Wednesday evening. "With reluctance", "we regret it", "it is inescapable", "inevitable", and "this is what the British want", is how the more reluctant Dutch MEPs explained their 'yes' vote to NOS. "If we really want to separate properly, there is still a lot of work …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Britain’s EU Journey: When Churchill urged European unity

Associated Press

LONDON — Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum. Maybe it’s just to do with the fact there is a strip of water separating the country from what is often referred to as “the continent.” Britain has always been wary of the …

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5 years ago

Clive Lewis: Why I’m standing to succeed Corbyn as Labour leader

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5 years ago

The day of Boris: On U.K. polls

The Hindu

The decisive victory the Conservative Party clinched in Thursday’s elections to Parliament gives British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who built his campaign around the promise to “get Brexit done”, a clear mandate to take the U.K. out of the European Union without further delay. He turned the poll into a de facto Brexit referendum, arguing that only a stable Conservative …

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