Gary Gibbon
Theresa May speech: would it have been much different if she’d won a majority?
The lectern in Downing Street has been wheeled out again.
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58 are missing presumed dead in the Grenfell tower blaze, police say
Theresa May met survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire – as well as volunteers and community leaders – in Downing Street this afternoon. And while she reassured families affected by the disaster that the Government was there for them, she admitted that support on the ground in the initial hours was simply not good enough.
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Michael Crick’s analysis of May’s future
Michael Crick asks whether Mrs May is showing any signs of confidence after the chaos of the last three days.
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Is Theresa May a ‘dead woman walking?’
The day began with former Chancellor George Osborne describing Theresa May as a “dead woman walking” and her Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon denying the controversial floated deal with the DUP was a formal coalition. It ended with the Prime Minister’s reshuffle of her cabinet and more questions about where this political impasse is headed.
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Gary Gibbon
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Is this the end of Brexit? Dominic Grieve and Gina Miller analysis
Less than two weeks before the talks are due to start – where does all this leave the whole Brexit process?
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Theresa May announces she will form a government
Theresa May has said she intends to form a government that will provide “certainty” and guide the country through Brexit talks.
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Theresa May’s election gamble backfires
Theresa May’s attempt to take advantage of Labour’s weakness in the opinion polls has sensationally backfired.
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Gary Gibbon
A surprise election with even more surprising results
That was the most tempestuous set of results in many many years.
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Sturgeon: election an opportunity to stop Tories in their tracks
The Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has accused Theresa May of arrogance, as she spoke to a final rally of supporters in Leith, declaring that the election is an opportunity to stop the Tories in their tracks. Four million Scottish voters will be heading to the polls tomorrow.
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May: ‘What we want is someone to be difficult and to stand up for Britain’
Speaking on the eve of the election, Prime Minister Theresa May tells Jon Snow she will be “difficult” and “stand up for Britain” in the Brexit negotiations.
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May says she may scrap human rights laws
From London to Scotland, from the Midlands to North Wales: it’s been a hectic last day of campaigning ahead of tomorrow’s election.
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Gary Gibbon
Theresa May’s final campaign speech
I am at the last venue for Theresa May’s campaign, just outside Birmingham. Half a dozen cabinet ministers just turned up to act as part of the backdrop for her last on camera address to voters.
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Gary Gibbon
Theresa May aims last campaign message at Ukip voters
The CCHQ core team last night produced a final campaign message that didn’t so much dog whistle at Ukip voters as blast a fog horn at them.
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Sturgeon: May is ‘weakest and most evasive leader in living memory’
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Theresa May called the election “to crush the opposition”, but has now shown herself to be the “weakest and most evasive leader in living memory”.
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Political leaders promise review of counter-terror policy
Well normal politics hasn’t quite been suspended today – as the PM confirmed the election will go ahead as planned on Thursday. She used her response on the attack to outline her plans on national security. While Jeremy Corbyn will give a speech in the next half hour addressing the attack and setting out Labour’s…
