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Joe Robertson's first interview as Isle of Wight East MP
Conservative Joe Robertson was won the Isle of Wight East constituency's first General Election.
2-min read - NewsReuters
'Big beasts' slayed as Conservatives suffer UK election bloodbath
A record number of senior ministers, including the defence secretary and one touted as a possible future leader, lost their parliamentary seats as the governing Conservative Party suffered a series of catastrophic defeats in Britain's election. Defence minister Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt, leader of the lower house of parliament, were among eight cabinet ministers who lost their seats, surpassing the previous record of seven in 1997 when Tony Blair brought Labour to power in a landslide ele
3-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
Penny Mordaunt loses seat and blames loss on Tories ‘failing to honour voters’ trust’
Penny Mordaunt told the Conservatives they had “failed to honour the trust” voters had placed in them after she lost the seat she had held for the party since 2010.
4-min read - NewsThe Bolton News
Phil Brickell and Chris Green’s speeches in full after result
Phil Brickell and Chris Green both made speeches to the University of Bolton Arena after after the Bolton West result was announced.
4-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
Nigel Farage understands the zeitgeist better than anyone – and the people of Clacton know it
In the end it was a walk-over. Having tried, and failed, on seven occasions to win a seat in Parliament, the most controversial, disruptive, and in many ways most significant, British politician of the last 25 years finally won the opportunity to fulfil his promise to sit in the House of Commons and “make a bloody nuisance” of himself.
7-min read - NewsFrance 24
Polls open in Iran presidential election runoff amid declining voter turnout
Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late president Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month. Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, faces ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, after a first round marred by a record-low turnout. Polls opened Friday for Iran's runoff presidential election, the interior ministry said, pitting reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in
1-min read - LifestyleYork Press
York Naked Bike Ride: 'no-one has ever been harmed by seeing a naked person'
'No-one has ever been harmed by seeing a naked person' - says our letter writer. What is your view?
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