Meanwhile, writing in the New Statesman, columnist Sarah Manavis said that U.S. Democrats’ excitable response to Harris’s brat status put the entire concept in doubt. “Harris’ team is falling into an obvious social media trap: attempting to turbo-charge online hype when doing so is a guaranteed way to burst that bubble.” Breaking point But despite … Read more
To try and woo the members, whose “loyalty and dedication” she marveled at, the backbench Essex MP pledged to give them a “much greater voice and role” in policy making, offering a democratically elected party chairman. Internally, Patel emphasized the need for rebuttal units and professional party agents to help win seats. Having spent the … Read more
Patel spent the last two years on the backbenches after serving as home secretary when Boris Johnson was in No. 10. A prominent figure on the right, she’s dubbed a “dark horse” of the campaign who can keep the right wing on side while potentially winning over One Nation centrist MPs averse to a harder-right … Read more
Those now widely expected to put themselves forward include, on the right, former Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch, the early bookies’ favorite, and former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick. Hardline former Home Secretaries Priti Patel and Suella Braverman have both been tipped as frontrunners, although one ally of Braverman said this was now less likely. Former Security … Read more
“Whilst the video call clearly appeared to be with Mr. Poroshenko, following the conversation the Foreign Secretary became suspicious. Contact details for others were requested and, given his concerns, the Foreign Secretary stopped responding,” according to the statement. The British government said it went public as it feared that the video could be used in the … Read more
The decision extends Assange’s stay at the high security Belmarsh Prison in southeast London, where he has been held since April 2019. Legal action against Assange started in 2010 after hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were published. The publisher spent seven years in London’s Ecuadorian embassy between 2012 … Read more
