How Corbyn’s Red Wall Crumbled: The UK Election in Maps
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have won their largest majority since Margaret Thatcher was returned to power for the third time in 1987, with an 80-seat majority.
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Boris Warns of Corbyn’s Brexit ‘Great Betrayal’ as He Targets Labour Leavers
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tour Labour Leave heartlands to woo traditionally left-wing voters, urging them to stop Jeremy Corbyn’s “great betrayal” of Brexit.
Former Labour MP Criticises Party for ‘Absurd Enthusiasm’ for EU ‘Draining’ UK
A former Labour MP has criticised his party’s “absurd enthusiasm” for the antidemocratic European Union, a position he says conflicts with Labour’s traditional working-class agenda.
Labour Leavers Switching to Brexit Party, Not Tories; ERG Urge Boris to Agree Election Pact
A new study shows Leave-voting Labour voters are considering switching their support to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, and not Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party — lending weight to calls for the Tory leader do an election deal with Farage to secure Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Labour’s Kate Hoey: My Party Has Become ‘Party of the Metropolitan Bubble’
Labour’s Kate Hoey MP has lamented that her party has become “a party of the metropolitan bubble” destined for “disaster” due to its abandonment of working-class Brexit supporters.
Local Labour Politicians Defect to Brexit Party as Labour Slumps in Polls
Two local Labour figures have defected to the Brexit Party, as Labour sinks to fourth place in a recent YouGov poll.
‘Large Majority of MPs are Remainers in Their Hearts and Souls,’ Warns Labour MP
Labour’s John Mann has warned that the House of Commons is dominated by Remain-supporting MPs looking for excuses to delay or outright cancel Brexit.
Kate Hoey: ‘We Didn’t Fight IRA Terrorists to Give Away Northern Ireland to Jumped-up EU Bureaucrats’
Labour’s Kate Hoey had harsh words for Brussels on Friday, saying the United Kingdom did not spend 30 years battling IRA terrorists in Northern Ireland so “jumped-up EU bureaucrats” could carve off the British province as the price of Brexit.
Sabotage: Govt Blocking Discussion of Brexit Backstop Alternatives, Inquiry Demanded
Pro-Brexit group Labour Leave has demanded a public inquiry into the Brexit negotiations after a customs expert told MPs he suspected HMRC was given a “political instruction” not to discuss alternatives to the contentious “backstop”.