To be brutal, Labour’s win in the Wakefield by-election was not good enough to put Keir Starmer on course to win the next general election. The swing to Labour in Wakefield would win the party a majority in the House of Commons if it were repeated in a general election, but it won’t be. We have to go further back …
LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has suffered a stunning defeat in a parliamentary by-election that was viewed as a referendum on his government amid weeks of scandal and soaring COVID-19 infections. Against this backdrop, supporters and opponents are questioning Johnson’s handling of the pandemic after coronavirus infections soared to records this week as the highly transmissible …
On Friday, Westminster woke up to a shock result in the North Shropshire by-election. The Liberal Democrats ran a tight campaign which had plenty of material to draw on: Covid chaos and uncertainty, the sleaze row surrounding the seat’s last MP Owen Paterson, and reports of Christmas parties in Downing Street during last year’s winter lockdown. “If had accepted his …
Boris Johnson is now in 'danger' after his authority came under question following every generation and faction of the Conservative Party rebelling against Covid passes, a senior Tory MP has warned. On another dramatic day of the coronavirus crisis: The Omicron variant has become dominant in London barely two weeks after it was first detected, health chiefs revealed today; But …
