Ed Jacobs
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Is this the beginning of the end for May's government?
This week has made the Conservatives' future very uncertain indeed. → Read More
Did Chris Grayling just commit to remaining under ECJ rulings?
The Transport Secretary said he thought Britain would remain in the European Aviation Safety Agency, which would mean being bound by ECJ rulings. → Read More
The Conservatives and the DUP are now at loggerheads over the Irish border
While May rules out hard borders, the Tories' bed partners in Westminster are now openly contradicting her. → Read More
Brexiteers pinning their hopes on a Merkel victory need to take a reality check
While some on the right expect a Merkel win to be good for Britain, Germans are not minded to give Theresa May a friendly deal. → Read More
Lords Committee lambasts government’s power grab in EU withdrawal bill
Ministers are under fire from all conceivable quarters, with a former head of the Civil Service and the leader of the Scottish Conservatives also voicing concerns. → Read More
Scottish Labour leadership race: Who are the runners and riders?
As Kezia Dugdale stands down, we look at who's in the running to become the party's fifth leader in six years. → Read More
First Ministers: Tories must listen to Wales and Scotland on Brexit
With Brexit negotiations ramping up, how much longer can the UK government ignore the nations of the UK? → Read More
Republicans blamed for congressional gridlock
Only 24% of Americans said they approved of the way the Republican leaders in Congress are handling their jobs. → Read More
Who’s to blame this time for the Stormont deadlock? The pundits speak
Analysing what the papers have to say. → Read More
Will the Barnett Formula be triggered following the DUP's £1bn 'power bribe'?
Should Scotland and Wales get increased funding too? → Read More
Is Theresa May facing even more trouble in the House of Lords?
Many are questioning whether the Salisbury Convention still applies → Read More
How will the Northern Irish power-sharing be affected by the Tory-DUP ‘friendship’?
Can the British government now claim to be a neutral arbitrator? → Read More
What is the world saying about the UK Election?
International news outlets focus on Brexit As the millions of people today cast their vote in the General Election, how is it being seen around the world? In the Washington Post, Mai’a K. Davis Cross a professor of political science at Northeastern University warns that there is nothing democratic about Brexit, supposedly the defining issue of the election. Noting that Theresa May called the… → Read More
The number of armed police officers is falling – that’s a fact. Theresa May must take responsibility.
Theresa May must take responsibility for her actions as home secretary → Read More
Labour set to steal seats from the Tories in Wales
The party's dramatic Welsh rebound continues Just weeks after it suggested that the Conservatives in Wales would find themselves ahead of Labour on polling day next week, the latest Welsh Political Barometer out this afternoon suggests that Labour is once again retaining and consolidating a dominant position in Wales. According to the Barometer, a collaboration between YouGov, ITV Wales and… → Read More
SNP set for 51 Westminster seats, according to new poll
Tories to gain just three In a further sign of the volatility of the polls ahead of the election next week, new figures produced by Ipsos Mori for STV seem to contradict the data produced by Survey Monkey for the Scottish Sun on Sunday. According to the Ipsos Mori findings, among those who expressed a voting preference and who said that they are either very likely or certain to vote, 43 per cent… → Read More
Have we already passed peak SNP?
A new poll shows the party losing 14 seats The SNP will today launch their election manifesto in the full knowledge that for them, the only way is down. Considering that the party took 56 of the 59 available seats in 2015, the question now is have we seen peak SNP? The answer is that we probably have According a poll out over the weekend, the SNP are on the lowest share of the vote they have… → Read More
Acts of kindness can make all the difference in a world of terror
Reflecting on the aftermath of the Manchester attack → Read More
Britain must continue to respond to terrorism with compassion and defiance
We are both more apprehensive and more united We wake as a country this morning with a continued sense of shock, of grief and, following the news that the threat level from international terrorism is at its highest level, a sense of apprehension. But we wake also this morning a nation more united than before the barbaric events of Monday evening, united in wanting to root out the terror and fear… → Read More
Three-quarters of Irish voters support a united Ireland
Just 43 per cent trust the British government in Brexit negotiations → Read More