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What could 1922 Committee elections mean for Boris Johnson?
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One of the most important but understated elections in Westminster will take place within weeks, with the date still shrouded in secrecy but candidates already plotting their campaigns. With positions on the 1922 Comm...
‘There’s nowhere I feel safe’: Georgia elections workers describe how Trump upended their lives
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In powerful and emotional testimony about the sinister results of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 verkiesing, a mother and daughter who were Georgia elections workers described how Trump and his allies upend...
‘There’s nowhere I feel safe’: Georgia elections workers describe how Trump upended their lives
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In powerful and emotional testimony about the sinister results of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 verkiesing, a mother and daughter who were Georgia elections workers described how Trump and his allies upend...
Five takeaways from the French elections – and what could happen next
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Emmanuel Macron’s alliance remains the largest force in France’s parliament, but the president – comfortably re-elected eight weeks ago – lost his overall majority amid a strong electoral showing by a new leftist coal...
Emmanuel Macron’s coalition level with new leftwing group in French elections
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Emmanuel Macron’s centrist grouping was neck and neck with a new leftwing alliance led by the hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the vote share of the first round of parliamentary elections, according to early projection...
Brothers of Italy: once-fringe far-right party plots local elections success
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Just five years ago, Brothers of Italy, a party with neofascist origins, barely scraped 4% of the vote. It now leads in opinion polls, and its leader Giorgia Meloni’s rabble-rousing speeches have filled squares up and...
What will the teal wave mean for Victorian and NSW state elections?
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With the federal poll decided, upcoming elections in Australia’s two biggest states will be the next electoral test for our country’s political parties. The dramatic swing to independents raises interesting questions ...
US primary elections: voters to test Trump’s power over Republican party – live
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Biden pitches Democrats as saviors for US economy ahead of midterm elections
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On a recent visit to a family farm in rural Illinois, thousands of miles away from the front lines of the grinding war in Ukraine, Joe Biden lashed out at his Russian counterpart, [object Window], blaming him for desta...
US primary elections: Dr Oz tied with McCormick in test of Trump’s influence on Republicans – live
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Workington Man het Tory ingegee 2019 maar teruggegly na Arbeid in die Britse plaaslike verkiesings
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Toe 'n konserwatief-ondersteunende dinkskrum die komende probeer ontleed het 2019 algemene verkiesing, dit het 'n argetipiese swaaikieser uitgedink wat volgens hom die sleutel tot 'n Tory-oorwinning sou wees. Wen oor die "Workington Man" - ...
Boris Johnson het verlig gesug – toe kry die boodskap van die Britse plaaslike verkiesings pos
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Op Vrydagoggend, as uitsaaiers, meningspeilers en politieke ontleders het probeer om sin te maak uit 'n mengelmoes van vroeë uitslae van die vorige dag se plaaslike verkiesings, niemand was heeltemal duidelik wie die beste gevaar het nie. Almal ...
Martin Rowson on a poor showing by the Tories in the local elections – cartoon
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The Guardian view on the May elections: Labour did well, but not well enough
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The council elections in England reveal that not all politics is local. On the doorstep, voters brought up the cost of living crisis and Boris Johnson being fined for breaking life-saving Covid rules. Mr Johnson knows...
Sensible MPs avoid the airwaves after elections. Fortunately, Dumb and Dumber were available
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On days like these, every prime minister needs his useful idiots. The morning after the local elections is a time for twattery as all parties try to make sense of the results and give them the best possible spin, so a...
Labour has done better in these local elections than it might seem
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Local elections are nearly always a mixed bag; giving expression to divergent points of view in different areas is part of the point of having local elections at all. But each year has its own broad trend. In 2018 Lab...