
Jonathan Gullis trends following Tories’ crushing defeat in Stoke-on-Trent
The MP’s post-election results interview was drowned out by Labour cheers.

The MP’s post-election results interview was drowned out by Labour cheers.

‘One voter turned away is too many’

Following the recommendation of a disciplinary panel, the Conservative Party has confirmed that the MP was expelled earlier this month.

The 28-point swing in favour of Labour would wipe out the comfortable majority Johnson earned in 2019.

Will chasing the same narrow economically left but culturally right constituent pay off for Labour? Or will those who are pushed too far, take their vote to a smaller party jostling for space in the straightjacket of the two-party system, or just not vote at all?

The government’s ‘green day’ “couldn’t be any more of a misnomer, when the Conservative party is raking in millions of pounds’ worth of dirty donations from fossil fuel interests and climate deniers.”

Boris Johnson might be looking down the barrel of political oblivion after his disastrous appearance at the Privileges Committee, but his legacy of ‘jobs for Tory cronies’ and the politicalisation of public appointments, is alive and kicking.

Not content with taking us out of Europe, the anti-EU right-wing forces in Britain have set their sights on some of our most cherished institutions.

Spending on government-issued “credit cards”, also known as Government Procurement Cards, has risen 70% since 2010.

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.