Travel chaos: 237,000 rush hour trains cancelled since 2019 Blue light bill bombshell as emergency services face £144m fuel and insurance costs Travel chaos: 237,000 rush hour trains cancelled since 2019 Average of 130 morning rush hour trains cancelled every day since 2019 Most cancelled train in Britain is the 6.40am from Cardiff to Nottingham Lib Dems warn "passengers are having to roll the dice every day" as trains cancelled at short notice A shocking 237,000 morning rush hour trains have faced cancellations since 2019, figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats have revealed. This is equivalent to an average of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
We think we know the history of the English country house in the 20th century. Their heyday was in the Edwardian era, but death duties and then requisition during the second world war led to mass demolition, until the tide turned when an exhibition - The Destruction of the Country House - staged by the V&A in 1974 alerted people to what was still being lost. The trouble is that, as Adrian Tinniswood shows in this endlessly entertaining book, every part of this version of events is questionable. By 1900, the owners of large country houses were already finding it ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRUKCon leadFieldwork Techne 23% (+1) 44% (+1) 10% (nc) 5% (-1) 12% (-1) -21% 27-28/3 WeThink 25% (+1) 44% (-3) 10% (+1) 5% (-1) 10% (-1) -19% 27-28/3 YouGov ...
We have not received a by-election report directly from ALDC today – it is a Bank Holiday, after all – but they have given the results on their website. Somerset Council, Somerton Liberal Democrats (Stephen Page): 1212 (50.1%, -1%) Conservative: 878 (36.3%, -2.2%) Labour: 174 (7.2%, -0.5%) Green Party: 154 (6.4%, new) Liberal Democrat HOLD Many congratulations to Stephen Page and the campaign team. We did not put up candidates in the other two elections yesterday. Neath Port Talbot Council, Neath East Labour: 409 (43.8, +10.6%) Independent: 247 (26.4%, new) Plaid Cymru: 157 (16.8%, -17.7%) Independent: 121 (13%, new) Labour ...
Lib Dems call on Government to block Thames Water bill rises 40% increase in hours of sewage dumped by Dwr Cymru last year Renters reform: Gove caves in to Conservative MPs as manifesto promise left in tatters Lib Dems call on Government to block Thames Water bill rises The party is calling for a Ministerial intervention to block the proposals which could see customer bills rise by at least 40% The Liberal Democrats have also demanded the Chancellor hold an urgent Downing Street summit with Thames Water bosses Following the news that Thames Water's shareholders have refused to inject £500 ...
Three principal authority by-elections this week, all on Maundy Thursday. Old electoral hands will remember when this used to be a day excluded from election timetables, along with weekends and bank holidays. But it returned to being a normal day for electoral purposes following the Electoral Administration Act 2006. There was only one Lib Dem candidate. However, that was the same as the last time these wards were up – and that candidate is now a councillor: Somerton (Somerset) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 50.1% (-1.0) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 36.3% (-2.2) [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 7.2% (-0.5) [IMG: 🌍] GRN: ...
This morning, an extraordinary coincidence, the Guardian reports that a businessman and former Egyptian government minister who donated £5m to the Conservative party last year has unexpectedly been given a knighthood on the recommendation of Rishi Sunak. The paper says that Mohamed Mansour, a senior treasurer of the Conservative party for just over a year, was one of several surprise recipients of honours on Thursday, with the citation saying it was given for business, charity and political service. But his donation was not without controversy: Labour has previously called for the Tories to hand back £5m donated last year by ...
