In weeks of Labour’s worst electoral defeat since 1935 pollsters are already predicting who will succeed Jeremy Corbyn in becoming leader of the opposition in March. However, YouGov have revealed that the front-runner and continuity-Corbyn candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey, is expected to lose emphatically to the shadow Brexit Secretary, Sir Keir Starmer.
Tag Archives: General Election
The Conservatives must use the next five years to become the party of law and order again
Jack Walters argues that for Boris Johnson to truly impose himself on British political history he must regenerate the Conservatives as the party of law and order.
HS2 will not create the opportunity that the north needs
Under the Cameroons HS2 was hailed as a great project to reconnect the UK. However, as days go by it becomes clearer that this vanity project will do very little to benefit the northern people.
The Labour Party: A Future? What Future?
‘The Conservative landslide has not only changed the dynamics of Britain’s position in the world, but it has also left the future of the Labour Party lies on a knife-edge. The choice for Labour, however, is unclear and unpredictable. Whether the parliamentary Labour party and Labour party members back a Blairite or a Corbynista one could argue that neither have the credentials to reunite the loosely connected coalitions of voters, which were shockingly fragmented under the rise of Boris Johnson.’
The State of the Union: United Ireland or United Kingdom?
In the second piece of analysis on the future of the Union, Jack Walters looks at the possible difficulties in Northern Ireland where Unionists have lost their stranglehold in Westminster for the first time.
The State of the Union: general election result shows that the demand for Welsh independence remains insignificant
After a great night for nationalists in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Jack Walters highlights that the so-called ‘Yes Cymru’ movement failed to make Welsh independence an important issue for the next decade of British politics.
Lincoln’s Brexit Party Candidate Withdraws in Another Setback for Farage
‘In the wake of four Brexit Party MEPs resigning from the party, the Brexit Party candidate, Reece Wilkes, pulls out of the election race in the tightly contested Labour-Conservative marginal of Lincoln, as concerns about Nigel Farage’s electoral strategy continue to grow.’
Between a rock and a hard place; voting Liberal Democrat
Ben Palmer, PAIS student at Warwick University, wants Britons to back the Liberal Democrats, not as the Remainer party, but because he believes that the country wants ‘a strong leader but also are willing to accept compromise.’
Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales: Croeso and Welcome
Joshua McCarthy,a Plaid Ifanc (Young Plaid) member and activist, studying History and Welsh History at Cardiff University, welcomes you to the fight for a New Wales.
Exclusive Interview with a Brexit Party Hopeful
Jack Walters interviewed the youngest Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in Wales, Cameron Edwards, and asked him what the Brexit Party will give the people of Newport West, what he thought of the defecting quartet and the Brexit Party’s chances of changing the political landscape.
