The election in which the Conservatives finally waved farewell to Thatcher’s ghost
Johnson is a self-described “Brexity Hezza” and now has the chance to mould a Party and country in his own romantic image.
The result that will finally give the British people the Brexit they voted for
We sometimes thought it wouldn’t happen, but the instruction is unambiguous. The voters have responded to the Prime Minister’s call to Get Brexit Done.
Andrew Gimson’s election sketch: Johnson plays his greatest joke on the Corbynistas
Here is a Tory Democrat who with sublime impertinence has stolen the socialists’ clothes.
2019 GENERAL ELECTION LIVE BLOG. IT’S OFFICIAL: CONSERVATIVES WIN OVERALL MAJORITY
Follow all the results, analysis and reactions through the night and into tomorrow morning. As we write, it looks like the best Tory result since the Thatcher era.
Boris, Actually
Today’s choice is between Marxist extremists and a Conservative Government different from its predecessors only in that it wants to leave the European Union.
Red Swan…or Tory landslide…or…
All in all, a Conservative win is still the most likely result. But if the YouGov MRP, the Ashcroft dashboard and other polls are accurate, it is less likely than it was.
Unfit for office. But worse even than Corbyn are Labour’s moderates – who are willing to put his anti-Jewish racism into power.
Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.
The truth about the NHS
Or: what would happen to the service once Corbyn ran out of other people’s money – which is needed to fund it.
Five videos that show how much the Conservatives’ online campaign has improved
Rumours that CCHQ was saving cash to go big on digital advertising in the last week of the campaign appear to be true.
The next Welsh Secretary if the Conservatives win
The two most likely candidates are both Welsh-speaking Brexiteers – but hail from different parts of the principality and differ on devolution.
We placed our trust in Johnson. Whatever happens on Thursday, he has kept faith with us – and with Britain.
A Black, sorry, Red Swan may carry him off. But in less than six months he has rescued the Conservatives, and is on the brink of delivering the referendum mandate.
Our last pre-election Cabinet League Table. It’s a near-tie at the top: Javid, Gove, Johnson, in that order.
Whilst individual ministers rise and fall, overall the Government goes to the polls with a lot of goodwill from grassroots Conservatives.
Our survey. A record nine in ten Party members expect Johnson to return to Downing Street as Prime Minister.
P.S: “For frantic boast and foolish word – / Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!”
The BBC debate. Both men were given the chance to make an argument. Which is why Johnson won it.
At any rate, Corbyn’s supporters will find it hard to argue convincingly that their man did better. And if the polls are right, Labour needed victory more.
What you may have missed about the Conservative Manifesto 5) Johnson has neither forgiven nor forgotten the Supreme Court
He will remember Lady Hale and her swipe over “girly swots”. More pertinently, he will have in mind the court’s constitutionally illterate decision over prorogation.