Geoff Marshall is our guide to a tube station that has three (count 'em) abandoned platforms. The exciting news is that one of them will soon to be brought back into use.
The only Conservative to gain seat for the party at the last general election is in danger of deselection, reports BBC News:Leicester East MP Shivani Raja has faced an attempt to block her standing as a candidate in the next general election. The Leicester Conservative Federation met at the end of September to vote on whether Raja would be selected to defend the seat she won in 2024. The BBC understand she narrowly lost the secret ballot and was not readopted. However, party officials have subsequently declared the meeting null and void, saying it was not properly constituted.So the drama ...
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Embed from Getty Images"This one's a doozy. The lads have really given it 110 per cent today," remarked the clerk who brought me the judges' decision. And she was right. Congratulations to The Athletic on winning our Headline of the Day Award.
The BBC reported last Friday that Charlie Maynard, the MP for Witney, has called for a no confidence vote against Ed Davey. For me this has been a long time coming, as I have heard constant rumours circling about the wider Party losing faith in him, but for many this has been a devastating example of Party infighting which will do us little good in the long-term. However, an internal coup is nasty business for everyone involved, if you fail after launching one it can destroy your career, if you lose against one it is an embarrassing end-note to your ...
Euronews reports: Spain has a new name in the electoral race for 29 November: Miriam González Durántez announced on 10 October her candidacy for the general election at the head of Democracia21 (d21), a newly created party that will make its debut only in Madrid and Barcelona, with plans to expand across the country in future contests at the ballot box. You can read the full article here. * Newshound: bringing you the best Lib Dem commentary in print, on air or online.
Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors on principal authorities elected under the Reform banner on 7 May 2026, or in by-elections after that date, who have already departed the party for one reason or another. Jay Cooper, Sefton: declared "not welcome" by Nigel Farage following reports of him calling the Holocaust a hoax and then resigned from the party (May 2026). Stuart Prior, Essex: expelled by Reform and resigned as a councillor after "he was accused the ...
The Guardian reports that Chancellor John Healey has been warned by Britain's leading tax and spending experts that his budget risks being a "work of fiction" unless he sets out plans to cover £35bn in spending pressures. The paper says that as the war in the Middle East rattles the public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said that the damage from higher inflation meant the chancellor would need to either top up funds for his current government spending plans or impose deep real-terms cuts by the end of the decade: Against a febrile backdrop in the bond ...
