In Northern Ireland voters could be forgiven for suffering election fatigue as they trudge to the polls for the seventh time – yes seventh time, in three years. But the parties claim the electorate are motivated by Brexit and the collapse of Stormont. And also motivated by the chance that Sinn Fein – even though…
The Conservative manifesto’s planned reforms for social care funding would see thousands more having to contribute to the cost of their care – but they will not have to pay during their lifetime.
The business case set out in the Tory manifesto aims for a balanced budget by 2025, ten years behind the original deadline set by David Cameron.
So the promise is that a Conservative government will tackle the “five giant challenges” facing Britain over the coming decade.
Gary Gibbon
We had been told to expect a 1979 style, lean Tory manifesto giving direction of travel and not too much else. We got a bit more detail than that but something that defines itself against Thatcherite free market worship.
Gary Gibbon
The Tories are taking a bit of a risk with their central demographic with today’s care proposals and the proposals on pensioner benefits. Extrapolating from the latest polls it looks like around 64% of their projected vote at the election could be over 50, 36% could be over 65. Compare that with Labour’s much younger…
While the Labour leadership was discussing its manifesto, the Prime Minister was visiting a mental health charity in London. Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon went along to meet her.
A Labour government would re-nationalise the railways and the Royal Mail, abolish student tuition fees and repeal benefit cuts, according to a leaked draft of the party’s manifesto.
Gary Gibbon
Am in Manchester following Jeremy Corbyn. He’s packed 1,000 supporters into a hall for his campaign launch. The backdrop is his battle bus, driven into the venue on a near empty tank due to health and safety rules.
One of the key issues in this week’s elections was housing – or rather the price of it . And nowhere more so than in booming Manchester – considered the engine of the northern powerhouse.
Jeremy Corbyn has admitted that Labour faces a huge challenge to win next month’s general election after its disappointing showing in the local elections – urging supporters to win round the millions of people he said were still undecided.
Conservative Nadhim Zahawi and Andy McDonald from Labour.
Gary Gibbon
These local election results suggest Labour might not perform quite as abysmally as the national polls had suggested. If you crunch the results in the locals and mayorals you can take an informed guess at what yesterday’s numbers would mean, if they were cast in the same percentages in the general election.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has delivered a warrior queen address in front of No 10 after her chat with The Queen. There’s every chance, according to her own political calculations, that the Brexit bill dominating the headlines was working its magic for her with many voters. But that, for Theresa May, wasn’t enough.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May is clearly relishing the headlines spawned by Brussels leaks. She has stoked them by digging up Ken Clarke’s overheard description of her as a “bloody difficult woman.”