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General election 2019

February 2024

  • Keir Starmer’s team is said to have begun planning how he could capture the Labour leadership in June 2019, six months before the party’s election defeat.

    Starmer set up own Labour leadership team six months before Corbyn’s 2019 defeat

    A new biography has revealed how the Labour leader and his allies planned his challenge in advance of the election

January 2024

  • Miatta Fahnbulleh

    Parliament after next general election will be most diverse ever, analysis shows

    Record number of female and ethnic minority MPs expected to sit in Commons according to study of candidate selections

June 2023

  • Boris Johnson leaves his home in London in March.

    Can Boris Johnson emulate Donald Trump and make a comeback? No chance

    Half of all Tory voters take a dim view of the former prime minister whereas the ex-president has a strong Republican support

April 2023

  • A return to Henley could tempt Johnson.

    Boris Johnson warned against a ‘chicken run’ to a safer seat

    The former prime minister could swap constituencies now that his own might be in danger at next general election

January 2023

  • Danny Beales, Labour’s candidate to take on Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the next election, says ‘people deserve a full-time MP’.

    A bellwether seat? Labour candidate sees beating Boris Johnson as key to power

    Danny Beales, who hopes to oust former PM, says Uxbridge and South Ruislip deserves ‘full-time MP’

June 2022

  • Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey (left) and newly elected MP Richard Foord in Tiverton, England, where the party overturned one of the safest Conservative seats in the country.

    Could tactical voting save Britain from the Tories?

  • Thursday 28th April 2022: A new documentary charting three pivotal years in the UK’s Labour party politics, MANIFESTO – will be released in UK cinemas from 17th June. MANIFESTO follows activists in the safest Labour seat in the country in Liverpool as they campaign for change. The film is directed, written, and produced by acclaimed documentary maker Daniel Draper (Nature of the Beast, The Big Meeting, Almost Liverpool 8). Since receiving a nomination for Best Film and Special Jury Prize at Sheffield Intl Documentary Festival 2021 for Almost Liverpool 8, Draper has continued his exploration of his working-class identity and the constituency he once called home with MANIFESTO.

    Manifesto review – Corbyn’s campaigners keep calm and carry on in Labour election film

December 2021

  • John Caudwell pictured in his office at his Mayfair mansion.

    Billionaire Tory backer turns against Johnson following sleaze and scandals

    Phones4U boss John Caudwell says he may withdraw support for the party and the prime minister

November 2021

  • New book says that by attracting Leave-supporting former Labour voters who might otherwise have backed the Conservatives, Farage may have significantly cut the scale of Labour’s defeat.

    Nigel Farage’s Brexit party saved Labour seats in 2019 election, analysis finds

    Experts say while party failed to win a seat they may have denied Boris Johnson a landslide by splitting vote

October 2021

  • Boris Johnson speaking at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, October 2021

    Tax hikes, empty shelves and fuel shortages – why do the Tories look so invincible?

    Phil Burton-Cartledge
    However badly Boris Johnson’s government performs, it will continue to benefit from older voters’ desire for certainty, says author and academic Phil Burton-Cartledge

July 2021

  • David Edgerton

    Labour didn’t lose its ‘red wall’ – it never had one

    David Edgerton
    The idea that working-class people voted Labour until Brexit came along is a fiction only the Conservatives benefit from, says modern history professor David Edgerton

June 2021

  • Ed Miliband photographed in his garden in London.

    Should Labour go big on radical change?

    Letters: Readers respond to former leader Ed Miliband’s thoughts on a future direction for the party

April 2021

  • Keir Starmer in Sheffield.

    Labour needs a new agenda – not a return to Corbynism

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by Owen Jones about Keir Starmer’s record so far

March 2021

  • Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain in December 2019

    Four aides to PM suggested Tory-linked firm for Cabinet Office work

    Staff including Dominic Cummings recommended hiring Public First for research on ‘levelling up’

January 2021

  • Elizabeth Denham.

    Tory party illegally collected data on ethnicity of 10m voters, MPs told

    Information commissioner says data was voluntarily deleted amid concerns about ‘weak’ enforcement

December 2020

  • The Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer

    Should Labour try to win back ‘red wall’ voters?

  • They survey was carried out a year after Labour’s worst general election results since 1935.

    General election 2019: one year on
    Labour 'red wall' seats lost to Conservatives in 2019 might be 'lost for good'

November 2020

  • Dominic Cummings outside his north London home after he resigned from his role in Downing Street.

    Brexit and the myth of ‘mastermind’ Cummings

    Letters: There was nothing new in Dominic Cummings’ political strategies, and Labour’s support in ‘red wall’ constituencies has been ebbing away for years, writes Michael Pyke. Plus letters from Dr Denis MacShane and John Airs

October 2020

  • A new mural in Manchester depicts an NHS worker, seen from a bar in the Northern Quarter.

    Handling of Covid-19 increases ‘red wall’ voters’ complaints of government

  • Screengrab of Tory candidates in HAckney, Diana Dianescu

    Tory election agent guilty of tricking voters into nominating candidates

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