Kemi Badenoch has been clear about the qualifying criteria for prospective Conservative MPs. They must be “serious people who understand common sense,” she has said. The situation in local government is different, as demonstrated by Mrs Badenoch’s ill-judged support for a former neo-Nazi, selected to stand as a councillor in Somerset next year. Joshua Bonehill-Paine…
Pollard said: “This Labour government is now rebuilding our military, including through increasing the size of our strategic reserves and giving them more opportunities to work with their regular counterparts.” The Conservatives said their pledge would be to recruit approximately 18,000 new reservists to bring the total to 50,000. The trained and untrained strength of…
They came for the cheap wine. They arrived in quarter-zips and tasteful cross necklaces. One young woman wore fur (raccoon). One young man wore a fleece adorned with a golf club’s seal (Trump). They sang along with Journey, bopped along to the Spice Girls. They networked over cans of hard seltzer. And then they went…
The monthly meeting in Lyon Township, a small town in southeast Michigan, was packed on a recent Monday, even though the main item on the agenda was an easement for a drain. Residents, holding notes and water bottles, lined up at the mic to talk about the actual issue on everybody’s minds: the proposed large-scale…
Shorouk Express But the party walks a tightrope. While not actively negotiating with the far right, the EPP can often depend on its votes in the European Parliament, becoming bedfellows in areas such as migration and deregulation ― exactly the sort of issues, the EPP feels, that motivated voters to support it. “I would love…
Shorouk Express Albanese’s win mirrored the stunning victory of Mark Carney’s center-left Liberal Party in Canada, where conservative Pierre Poilievre lost both the election and his own seat, despite being 25 percentage points up in polling at the end of 2024 over unpopular then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A POLITICO/Focaldata poll of Canadians days before the election there…
Shorouk Express FLENSBURG, Germany — Friedrich Merz is Germany’s likely next chancellor, but how he will form a coalition government is looking increasingly uncertain. At a campaign event on Friday in the northern German city of Flensburg, Greens chancellor candidate Robert Habeck cast doubt on the possibility of a coalition between his party and Merz’s…
