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Ed Davey

Exclusive interview: Ed Davey says Liberal Democrats ‘critical’ in getting Tories out

Hannah Davenport
Yesterday

The leader of the Liberal Democrats also accused the Tories of breaking the law by cutting international aid

Can the Tories win the next general election?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

For a government limping along under the rule of its fifth prime minister in six years, drenched in sleaze and infighting, conventional wisdom says surely the Tories can’t survive the next general election. But then this is politics, and anything can happen.

Tory candidate

Tories face wipeout at next election and will win fewer seats than SNP, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
9 February, 2023

15 Cabinet ministers would lose their seats including Sunak, James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, and Suella Braverman.

Parliament

Richard Burgon MP: Let’s give the public the power to call general elections

Richard Burgon
25 January, 2023

‘We urgently need to offer ways of fixing the broken politics that got us here in the first place.’

Charles Walker

Tory MP admits it’s ‘almost impossible for the Conservatives to win the next election’, warning more MPs will quit

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2022

“Many of my colleagues will be thinking ‘Do I want to do much more of this? Do I want to go down to Electoral defeat?”

Tory candidate

A full list of the Tory MPs quitting before the next election

Basit Mahmood
28 November, 2022

The government is reported to be ‘bracing itself for an exodus of MPs’, who would rather step down than campaign in seats that they believe they are certain to lose.

Polling station

80 Tory MPs could decide not to stand in next general election

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 November, 2022

As the deadline for standing in the 2024 election gets closer, a report shows the Conservative Party may be braced for a mass exodus of MPs.

Polling Station

Tens of thousands sign ‘General Election Now’ petition

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
22 October, 2022

Momentum builds for the country to go to the polls to decide who the next prime minister will be.

Liz Truss speaking in the House of Commons

The UK has become a laughing stock, we need a general election now

Prem Sikka
21 October, 2022

‘The UK needs a fresh start and that can’t be provided by the Conservative party hoisting another neoliberal prime minister on the country. We need a general election now.’

Voting Ballot Box

EXCLUSIVE: 65% of voters want Liz Truss to call a general election immediately, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
19 October, 2022

When it comes to party affiliation, nearly half of those who voted Conservative in 2019 want an immediate election (49%), with 89% of Labour voters also demanding one.

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