Liz Truss has been announced as the new Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party. Truss was elected after weeks of campaigning against former chancellor Rishi Sunak for the position, and was voted in with 81,326 votes against Sunak’s 60,399. The vote reported an 82.6% turnout from an electorate of 172,437 Conservative party members. […]

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The Conservative party lost two seats in the by-election today, losing the Tiverton and Honiton seat to the Liberal Democrat party and the Wakefield seat to Labour. The defeat comes hot on the heels of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest wave of scandal, with the Tories still working to stamp out the flames from ‘partygate.’ […]

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The time is 12:30 on Thursday the 12th of December. I tell my colleague to bet on cable, shorting the pound until 20:00 – election day is always jittery. The time comes to 21:50, moments before the exit poll. I tell him to back Sterling with everything he’s got, he doesn’t, and minutes later I […]

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Largely led by an intelligent management of the agenda, the Conservative Party won a decisive majority in the December General Election. Conservatives win overall majority in 2019 UK general election, passing threshold of 326 seats, with more seats yet to declare #BBCElection #GE2019 https://t.co/KV6XxHEREW pic.twitter.com/BfFGazsI83 — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 13, 2019 The Labour […]

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With the general election little more than two weeks away, the general public and market indices alike wait with baited breath. What is on offer are two starkly different visions for the future of the UK, with both equally likely to intensify existing divisions. Today, however, the pound showed the market’s preference, as it dipped […]

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Launching her party’s campaign today in Edinburgh, Nicola Sturgeon said that while the SNP have ruled out the idea of entering into any formal coalition, they would entertain the possibility of a ‘progressive alliance’ with Labour, in the event of a minority government or hung Parliament. “If there’s a hung parliament … SNP MPs will […]

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The views expressed in this article are entirely my own, and do not reflect the views of my colleagues or the UK Investor Magazine. I was going to title this piece ‘Brexit and what Labour has done wrong’ but it didn’t seem entirely appropriate. Sure, they have been accused of acting undemocratically or contrary to […]

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Following an almost disastrous result for Theresa May in yesterday’s vote to amend her customs union plans, the government look on shaky ground as Brexit negotiations continue. This comes after Mrs May’s divisive but altogether underwhelming Brexit proposal last week, which was dubbed by former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as a “semi-Brexit”, that would leave […]

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