Inside the Lib Dem election celebration rally that showed the party has never been happier
Stand-up routines. Confetti cannons. AI generated images of Ed Davey in a wet suit. This rally had it all.
“At noon Rishi Sunak promised “integrity, professionalism & accountability. At 5pm he made Suella Braverman Home Secretary”
‘As part of concerted, focused drives, France, Germany and Spain, among other states, have brought in measures like maximum heating and cooling levels for shops and offices, bans on night time use of neon shop signs and other excessive lighting’
“We can only hope he takes his green light for fracking and for trashing hundreds of pieces of EU legislation with him.”
“The Conservative Party is going to lose tens of thousands of members as a result of what has happened today, and for those that remain it will make them less likely to want to go out and knock on doors at the next election.”
Most of the public aren’t feeling so hopeful after Rishi Sunak’s coronation as Tory leader, with only four in ten saying that they are pleased he has become Prime Minister. A snap YouGov poll after the announcement that Sunak hadtest
Momentum had been with Sunak after he won the support of over half of the parliamentary party.
“I think its got to move on from fighting its own internal wars and focus on what needs to be done on the economy and admitting some of the mistakes they’ve made in the last six years”
77% of voters believe that the government is not doing enough, compared to just 17% who think that the government is doing enough.
“He’s got no mandate from the people,” the former Culture Secretary said
Trade from Britain to the bloc is down on levels anticipated if the country had not left the EU, research has found.