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.
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.
Plus: Leaders who will have to go and reflections on my eleventh general election. How things have changed.
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.
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.
That’s a legitimate political agenda, and people are quite welcome to vote for it. But they deserve to know what’s coming.
What vocabulary is left for a choice like the one we face tomorrow? We have no words to convey the magnitude.
Johnson’s lead over Corbyn in the best Prime Minister stakes has narrowed slightly to 15 points.
Or: what would happen to the service once Corbyn ran out of other people’s money – which is needed to fund it.
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.
Twelve months on from Thursday’s election, Johnson faces an unpalatable choice – and Cabinet resignations…
“I don’t think the British people are hostile to immigration at all, but they do want it democratically controlled,” he says.
Security minister says only British citizens have donated to the Tories during the election campaign.
In 2017, 51 MPs were returned with majorities of less than a thousand. That’s 51 results potentially determined by an extra hour on the doorstep,
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.
We reproduce a further Twitter thread from the man who helped to advise Ruth Davidson on how to win in Scotland.