This week's podcast is part 1 of our May 6 election preview @RobynVinter goes to Hartlepool to talk Starmer, Brexit and the NIP @auriol_miller on Wales’ most unpredictable elections ever 🤡 Plus: What listeners would text to Boris Johnson Podfollow.com
“One year ago at the general election, Scotland rejected this prime minister, rejected this Tory government and rejected their extreme Brexit. People in Scotland now need to know the price that we’ll be forced to pay." buff.ly
The departure of an obscure aide shows how Boris Johnson is confronts suddenly shifting political forces, with the election of a new, anti-Brexit American president and mounting pressure to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union nyti.ms
*NEW PODCAST!* @Porritt and @sanglesey are joined by @MitchBenn to discuss the turbulent US presidential election, the latest in the Brexit negotiations, Rory Stewart's excoriating book review, Gogglebox bias and British-shaped deals pod.fo
"Even before the last election there were reports of No.10 polling issues like trans rights to see whether these might rile up some traditional Labour areas even more than Brexit" theneweuropean.co.uk
"Why is Boris Johnson so against extending the Brexit transition period? Is it because he fears the USA will be less keen on a trade deal with the UK if Joe Biden succeeds Donald Trump after the presidential election in November?" theneweuropean.co.uk
Ireland's prime minister, Leo Varadkar, is in trouble in Saturday's voting. He may have won Brexit, but with voters frustrated over a housing crisis, he is facing every politician’s curse of being a status quo figure in a change election. nyti.ms
With Thursday's stunning election result, the Conservative Party is now composed of two wings: hard-line free marketeers and the newcomers, ex-Labourites who expect Brexit to lead to a revival of traditional industries nyti.ms
Britain's Conservatives celebrated their biggest victory since Margaret Thatcher. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the election results appeared to have given his government “a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.” nyti.ms