In stark contrast to Wednesday's one hour "clash" between the two party leaders, yesterday's debate which involved seven of the UK's major parties was, in spite of lasting one and a half hours, lively, gripping, informative and, for the most part, honest. It was unfortunate that the "luck of the draw" placed the Labour and Conservative representatives adjacent to each other (though appropriately on the "far right " of the line up,) so that Angela Raynor and Penny Mordaunt couldn't resist taunting, hectoring and over-talking each other.* M/s Mordaunt in particular gave a faithful imitation of her leader's approach to ...
In my first 3.5 weeks as Lord Mayor I have attended 4 events, with one more coming up, at which I was able to talk to people who now live in Liverpool about awful events far away which led them ... Continue reading →
Five candidates will stand for South Shropshire in the 4 July general election. Seven will stand in Shrewsbury and five in North Shropshire. South Shropshire Anderson, Stuart - Conservative Green, Matthew - Liberal Democrat Shackerley-Bennett, Charles - Reform UK Thomson, Simon - Labour Wendt, Hilary - Green Party Shrewsbury Applegate, Victor - Reform UK Bovill, Chris - English Democrats Buckley, Julia - Labour Dean, Julian - Green Party Gollins, James - Independent Kawczysnki, Daniel - Conservative Wagner, Alex - Liberal Democrat North Shropshire Baynes, Simon - Conservative Cladingbowl, Samuel - Independent Emery, Craig - Green Party Morgan, Helen - Liberal ...
Narendra Modi won and lost India's general election. His Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its absolute majority in parliament. But with the help of 23 smaller parties has cobbled together a working coalition. But more importantly, the BJP lost big in the expectation stakes. Modi's party was predicted to romp home with 400-plus seats. This would have given the BJP the super majority it needed to complete the transformation of India from the world's largest democracy to an autocratic Hindu nationalist nation. As it is the BJP dropped from 303 to 240 seats. And, to add insult to injury, some ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls – indicates that party didn't feature in the polling questions separate from 'Others' or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change since the previous ...
Residents recently highlighted to us that the yellow lining at the south end of Tait's Lane was very worn. We therefore asked the Roads Maintenance Partnership to have it refreshed and have received the following helpful response : "An order has been raised for the double yellow markings to be refreshed."
