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This is the eighth of a number of columns that ran around the General Election that was held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland yesterday on July 4th. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had a General Election last night It returned the Labour Party to government with the[...]

This is really going to be a big thing, the first General Election with such a thing, mandated by the Conservative government in a move one of their own ministers involved with the decision later admitted was an attempt at gerrymandering to up the older voter against the younger voter – but one that may[...]

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This is the sixth of several columns in the run-up to the General Election being held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on July 4th. Tomorrow will be the General Election And everything is going to change I don't just mean the party in power or the party system that will rip itself[...]

This is the fifth of several columns in the run-up to the General Election being held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on July 4th. We've run through the leadup to the British General Election, as well as a look at the three main players and the issues that surround then, Sir Keir[...]

This is the fourth of several columns in the run-up to the General Election being held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on July 4th. Sit Keir Starmer is the Leader of the Labour Party, Leader of His Majesty's Opposition, and, barring some kind of natural disaster, in four days' time, will be[...]

This is the third of several columns in the run-up to the General Election being held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on July 4th. Picture the scene It is the run-up to Christmas 2020, in full lockdown I am attending a socially distanced and ventilated business meeting following official guidance which happens[...]

This is the second of several columns in the run-up to the General Election being held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on July 4th. Rishi Sunak is a peculiar Prime Minister, and the run-up to the election has exposed some of the greater oddnesses inherent within In recent weeks that has[...]

This is the first of several columns in the run-up to the General Election being held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on July 4th. This is going to be the maddest General Election this country has had in a century and every day up to the day of the vote, I[...]

Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Rishi Sunak MP, earlier today, announced a General Election for the 4th of July, after visiting King Charles He did so, at a lectern outside of Number 10 Downing Street in the rain, which soon became a downpour (as I discovered, trying to cycle home through London)[...]

But part and parcel of free speech. There is a General Election this year Is there time between the popular rhetoric of these measures clearly aimed at pro-Palestinian marches that have taken place in London every Saturday, with a smidgen of Just Stop Oil, and the clear injustices that will occur that, as usual, wil see[...]

That was the General Election that was Boris Johnson has been returned as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Conservative government has their biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher For those on the left looking for a crumb of comfort it is that, with such a majority, Johnson won't need to pander to[...]

The General Election is over The exit poll is in And, as the votes around Britain are being counted, everyone is now convinced that the Conservative Party led by Boris Johnson have their biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher Which will mean we'll get Brexit in January, and a large enough majority for Boris to, basically,[...]

Britain is in the heat of a General Election, three weeks away now We just had the first live television debate between Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, of the Labour Party Three years ago, before the General Election of 2017, comic book writer, novelist, screenwriter,[...]

Great Britain has just had our first national TV debate between the two main party leaders, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, ahead of the General Election in three weeks' time. During the debate, the Conservative Party totally rebranded their Twitter account to read FactCheckUK with purple livery And proceeded to[...]

And with the British General Election in less than a month's time, Momentum released a new political advert using Batman and The Joker asking if Batman is the Bad Guy, including clips from Batman films, Joker, the Batman TV series and original footage filmed with two actors playing the Batman and The Joker… Here's the video,[...]

So, the UK had a General Election Everyone either won or lost. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened with the UK vote. — Tess Fowler (currently working on a CO GN) (@TessFowler) June 9, 2017 I tried to explain the result, in an article called Welcome To Weird Britain, last night Not sure how[...]

That's how it works. For Americans, we don't have a President, but it's as if the Electoral College was the legislature, and the executive drawn from within its ranks. Theresa May was struggling, her majority of Conservative MPs in the House Of Commons was repeatedly challenged, even while the public support for Labour, the opposition party was low,[...]

So, the Conservatives have won the UK election, scraping a full majority of elected MPs in the House of Commons. Labour's vote collapsed in Scotland, the

In Britain, the General Election is underway Everyone gets to vote on for a local Member of Parliament, and then whichever party can form a majority of MPs gets to form the government Except with the latest polls giving Labour and Conservative parties 34.1% each and the vote not concentrated enough thanks to the efforts[...]