Month: December 2019

We’re almost there now, staggering to the end of the least inspiring, most depressing General Election in living memory. And that includes the experience of Theresa May’s robotic performance in ...

Leading Scottish campaigners and church leaders have called on politicians elected tomorrow to commit to “righting the wrongs” caused by a decade of austerity. Whoever wins the keys to 10 ...

Austerity is a major election talking point, as the different parties announce their plans for how to deal with the policy’s impact should they win the general election. The Ferret’s ...

The 2019 general election has been beset by false and misleading claims. Many of these have come through the letterboxes of voters in the form of election leaflets, which bombard ...

Rejoice! Today the incredible happened. For a short period of time, Boris Johnson wasn’t telling any lies! We had to wait until the very last day of campaigning, but it ...

Today is – thanks be to God and all that is holy – the last day of the worst general election in recorded human history, and indeed perhaps the worst ...

I've been receiving quite a few emails from readers over the course of the campaign, so apologies if there are one or two I haven't replied to yet, because I've ...

Survation, who used to regularly conduct Scottish polls but haven't done so for quite a while, have released their final GB-wide poll of the campaign.  They announced that the Scottish ...

It’s the election special edition of the Dugcast. This week The National’s multimedia reporter Craig Cairns and I dissect the election results, and what the SNP’s stonking result means for ...