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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2017 18:18:07 GMT
British Prime Minister Theresa May appears to have begun a purge in her party after shock election results threw the future of her leadership in doubt. May's co-chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, announced their resignations Saturday on the Conservative Home political blog. Timothy conceded in a statement that he had failed to carry out an effective election campaign, while Hill made no mention of her performance. May suffered a humiliating blow as the "snap election" Thursday spectacularly backfired, stripping her Conservative Party of its commanding majority in Parliament. She had called the vote three years earlier than required by law, with the aim of sweeping an even greater majority for her party before Brexit talks in nine days to take the country out of the European Union.
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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2017 18:30:50 GMT
European Parliament Member Nigel Farage on the political fallout from the British election.
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2017 18:17:29 GMT
YouGov conducts one of Britain's biggest ever post-election surveys to chart how the nation's political character is shifting. Since last week’s election result YouGov has interview over 50,000 British adults to gather more information on how Britain voted. This is part of one of the biggest surveys ever undertaken into British voting behaviour, and is the largest yet that asks people how they actually cast their ballots in the 2017 election. In electoral terms, age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics. The starkest way to show this is to note that, amongst first time voters (those aged 18 and 19), Labour was forty seven percentage points ahead. Amongst those aged over 70, the Conservatives had a lead of fifty percentage points. In fact, for every 10 years older a voter is, their chance of voting Tory increases by around nine points and the chance of them voting Labour decreases by nine points. The tipping point, that is the age at which a voter is more likely to have voted Conservative than Labour, is now 47 – up from 34 at the start of the campaign.
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Post by Admin on Jun 14, 2017 18:19:59 GMT
Downing Street and the Democratic Unionist Party say they are still in discussions over a possible deal to secure support for a minority Conservative government. On Saturday, Downing Street announced a deal had been agreed in principle - but both sides then issued statements saying talks were ongoing. The Tories need the support of the DUP's 10 MPs for a Commons majority. No 10 described it as a "confidence and supply" deal rather than a coalition. Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure after Thursday's general election left her without a majority. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the Sunday Mirror he could still be prime minister.
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2017 19:19:33 GMT
Two senior administration officials told New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom is currently off the president’s schedule. That report follows a story in The Guardian that said Trump’s U.K. trip had been put “on hold” after he told British Prime Minister Theresa May he was worried about being met with mass street protests. The conversation between the two leaders took place in recent weeks and was heard by “a Downing Street adviser who was in the room,” according to The Guardian.
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