The hopes of an anxious Liberal caucus were first raised at the end of the summer of 2022 in the resort town of St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick. Liberals had gathered that August for the first in-person retreat after the pandemic to confront a series of polls that found them trailing the leaderless Conservatives by a…
New Democrat Leader David Eby is urging Green voters in British Columbia’s tight election to back the NDP to keep John Rustad’s B.C. Conservatives from forming government, but the Greens say people should support the candidate of their choice. Green and NDP voters must stick together this election to defeat the B.C. Conservatives, who are…
It was never going to hold up for long. But – I suspect – even Labour are surprised that after just 100 days their pledge to “smash the gangs” lies in tatters. The truth was that Labour’s so-called plan had very little to do with solving illegal migration and everything to do with fixing Keir…
The Liberal Party of Canada has been without a national campaign director for over a month, but that changed on Sunday when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed veteran Liberal Andrew Bevan to the post. Bevan will serve during the next federal election. The post became empty last month when longtime Trudeau advisor Jeremy Broadhurst resigned,…
Alex Salmond was the undisputed figurehead of the independence movement for decades. He was the instantly recognisable, colourful, controversial, and complicated face of a movement that Salmond dragged from the fringes to the forefront of political discourse in the Scotland we know today. Although Salmond has been on the sidelines of the show in recent…
The following is a transcript of an interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Oct. 13, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: And we go now to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who joins us from Benton, Louisiana. Good morning to you, Mr. Speaker. SPEAKER OF THE…
Getty Images Edinburgh awoke on 19 September 2014 with a blanket of mist soaking the stones of the old city. The cacophony of an independence referendum campaign which had echoed through Scotland for three years had died away and Alex Salmond, so often the embodiment of pugnacious self-confidence, appeared pale and drained. Overnight it had…
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A top Labour minister was left squirming this morning as he was confronted with a Labour’s huge blunder that nearly blew a £1 billion investment in the UK economy. On Friday P&O Ferries owner DP World pulled their planned investment in its London Gateway container port after the deputy Prime Minister joined Louise Haigh in…
The business secretary has suggested the government could put up national insurance for employers in the budget without breaking its election pledges. Jonathan Reynolds told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that Labour’s promise not to increase national insurance “was specifically in the manifesto, a reference to employees”. National insurance is paid by both employees and…
