Keir Starmer talks to children in Scunthorpe.
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Labour strategists seem determined to cast Starmer as the sensible ‘adult in the room’, but in order to win lost areas he needs to be much more radical than that.
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A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its trousers on.
Johnson visiting Tony Blair’s former constituency of Sedgefield after the December election.
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When you look at what the PM is up against, the Brexit trade negotiations might almost seem like light relief.
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The hand that taps ‘remove from this group’ is the hand that rules the world.
Johnson: a new voter base demands a new approach.
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There is speculation over what the PM actually needs to do to hold on to his new voters.
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Only 2% of children have the skills needed to identify a credible news story.
Boris Johnson poses with his new MPs.
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The good news is that one party has more women than men now. The bad news is it’s not the party of government.
Can the BBC continue to hold leaders to account?
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There were some ominous sounds coming out of the election campaign about what the Conservatives might have planned for the UK’s public broadcaster.
Starmer and Corbyn: not so different after all.
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Centrists are at loggerheads with the left. They’re both right about what went wrong and that’s a problem.
Now let’s do a deal.
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What Boris Johnson’s victory means for US-UK relations.
As usual, the UK media landscape offered partisan coverage of the 2019 election.
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It wasn’t the ‘Sun wot won it’, but the partisanship of the UK press made the Conservatives’ task a great deal easier.
It’s not just Brexit that he’s eyeing up.
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A large majority gives the prime minister freedom to dramatically alter the machinary of the nation.
Cummings says the civil service is full of ‘hollow men’.
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In the US, some federal departments become known as ‘turkey farms’ – stuffed with loyal but ultimately useless political appointees.
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The leadership insists the manifesto was not the problem in 2019 – but are they sure?
Other voting systems are available.
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A chorus of politicians are once again calling for electoral reform after the UK’s 2019 election.
On the mend?
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While Johnson brings a modicum of certainty about the UK’s direction of travel – out of the EU – its future beyond 2020 remains uncertain.
Grimsby was one of Labour’s big losses on the night.
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With historical strongholds lost to the Conservatives, some introspection is needed.
It’s all over now, baby blue.
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What lay behind Team Corbyn’s woeful campaign.
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Reforms are set to continue in the same direction as before.
Led by Boris Johnson, the Conservatives won 56% of the vote and will have an 80-seat majority.
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The election means Britain will Leave the European Union by January 31 under Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, which was blocked by the previous parliament.