The Conservatives won just 121 seats, down 251 from the 2019 notional election results. Tory support cratered in many parts of Britain, with Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform UK party winning a ...

The Conservative and Unionist Party (the “Tories”) is the oldest political party in the UK. Traditionally 1834 is seen as the year that marks the beginning of the modern party we know of today. That ...

Nearly 60 members of parliament have said they won’t run again in 2019. It’s worth looking ... that far from smoothing the UK’s exit from the EU, the election blows up in Johnson’s face ...

Before then "the UK was considered unusual in developed ... In the run-up to the 2019 election, the country established an independent debate commission and while it is too late to instigate ...

There is some precedent. Johnson’s general election victory in 2019 was facilitated at least in part by Farage’s then Brexit Party — which became Reform UK — standing aside in hundreds of ...

The taxpayer spent £52.8 million on the transition between parliaments, including around £13 million on redundancy payments.