PODCAST – Does North Shropshire signal the end for Boris Johnson?
To discuss Helen Morgan’s stunning victory in the North Shropshire by-election, I welcomed Professor Tim Bale back to Never Mind The Bar Charts. … Read the full post »
Read about the Conservative politician Boris Johnson. Member of Parliament for first Henley and then later Uxbridge and South Ruislip, in-between he was Mayor of London.
As an MP, he served as Foreign Secretary. He then became Prime Minister in 2019, winning a general election later that year.
To discuss Helen Morgan’s stunning victory in the North Shropshire by-election, I welcomed Professor Tim Bale back to Never Mind The Bar Charts. … Read the full post »
I’ve often said history points to two routes for Liberal Democrat (and before that Liberal Party) revivals. One, which we’d much rather avoid, is.. … Read the full post »
Paula Surridge is co-author of a new book on the 2019 general election and explains why Boris Johnson won. The reasons are not all good news for the Conservatives… … Read the full post »
The bad news keeps on coming for Boris Johnson with the Electoral Commission handing out a fine for law-breaking over the infamous Downing Street flat refurbishment. … Read the full post »
The 2008 Newsnight London Mayor debate had a very revealing moment about Boris Johnson’s grasp of the facts. Or rather, non-grasp. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #53 came out last week, including a look at how public opinion is, and isn’t, moving over Britain’s exit from the European Union. … Read the full post »
The problems in the Labour Party since its defeat at the Hartlepool by-election are all the more striking when you remember that it wasn’t a surprising defeat. The 2019 results and the by-election polls had both pointed that way. Yet it was the reality of votes being counted up that triggered a crisis. Now there’s … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrats have written to the Prime Minister calling for the UK to begin donating vaccines through the COVAX programme immediately. … Read the full post »
Six opposition parties in the Commons are urging the Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, to allow a vote on an inquiry into Boris Johnson’s “consistent failure to be honest”. … Read the full post »
“Let’s put recovery first, and let’s get to work for our communities – building the fairer, greener, more caring country we all want to live in” – Ed Davey … Read the full post »