A Prime Minister by default. Rishi Sunak will be the next Prime Minister of the UK after rival Penny Mordaunt failed to secure enough backing from Tory MPs. Nominations from MPs in the leadership contest closed at 2 pm on Monday, and Mordaunt failed to reach the 100 nominations she needed to get onto the […]

3 years ago

“You dressed up party lines as a fact-check service. That is dystopian.” BBC journalist Emily Maitlis grilled Chairman of the Conservative Party James Cleverly on Newsnight on Tuesday after the Conservative Party’s press office Twitter username was changed to ‘factcheckUK’ during a televised debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. The account, which has nearly 76,000 […]

6 years ago