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Polls close in less than 3 hours. 10pm (GMT +1). Voter ID is mandatory. Results will come in through the night UK time meaning Freepers on ET/PT will have a ringside seat. Respected pollster Survation report that Nigel Farage's Reform UK party could win 15 or more seats with Labour scoring a massive majority. Nigel himself should get elected so it depends how many go with him. That will be the story worth following. Good luck.

@liz_churchill10 “Those connected to Islamist Ideology must be stripped of their Nationality and expelled. The French who adopt the Ideology of the Enemy must be punished. Radical Mosques will be shut down…and the Muslim Brotherhood will be dissolved…” -Marine Le Pen

Nigel Farage has said that it would be a “disaster” if Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won power in France. The Reform UK leader said the hard-Right party would be “even worse for the economy than the current lot”. But he praised Giorgia Meloni, the hard-Right prime minister of Italy, saying: “She’s brought her party into the 21st century. Some of the more radical Italians might not like it, but she’s been a very good thing and she’s made her party electable.” Mr Farage spoke to the Unherd website before the National Rally won the largest share of the vote...

Photo British politician George Galloway, known for his anti-Israel views, lost the Rochdale constituency in Thursday’s parliamentary election, just months after winning it. Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain, received 11,508 votes, behind Labour’s Paul Waugh who won the seat with 13,047 votes. He had just won the seat in a February by-election. Galloway, a former Labour lawmaker, is known for his radical stance and longtime support for various terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. He was expelled from Labour in 2003.

Ayoub Khan, the independent candidate backed by The Muslim Vote (TMV) who defeated Labour to take the seat of Birmingham Perry Bar, publicly questioned the extent of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7.Having served as a Liberal Democrat councillor, Khan resigned from the party in May after he had already been selected as its Perry Bar parliamentary candidate, saying he had been told to “hush up” his concerns over the Gaza war but could not do so without compromising his integrity. In yesterday’s poll he overturned the Labour incumbent Khalid Mahmood’s 15,000 majority to win by just under...

Sectarian politics is officially here to stay in Britain as a schism on the left saw multiple independent candidates best the Labour Party in Thursday’s general election after running on a pro-Palestinian platform. While the left-wing Labour Party has traditionally been able to count on the overwhelming support of the Muslim community in the UK, this support appears to be fracturing as new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has attempted to move his party away from the antisemitism scandals and accusations of supporting radical Islamists that bedevilled his socialist predecessor Jeremy Corbyn. According to an analysis from the BBC, Labour...

Donald Trump has congratulated Nigel Farage on his General Election win in Clacton [District]. The former US president, who has long supported Mr Farage’s political career, posted about the victory on his social media platform, Truth Social. “Congratulations to Nigel Farage on his big WIN of a Parliament Seat Amid Reform UK Election Success,” he said. “Nigel is a man who truly loves his country.”

What is 'first past the post' and why does it lead to results like this? The reason for the apparent disparity if the UK's first past the post (FPTP) voting system - in which the candidate with the largest number of votes in their constituency is elected. It’s a simple premise, but one that benefits Labour and the Conservatives. According to the Electoral Reform Society, which is against FPTP, this system leads to a situation where “even if millions of voters support the same party, if they are thinly spread out across the UK they may only get the largest...

Britain's Labour Party swept to power Friday after more than a decade in opposition, as a jaded electorate handed the party a landslide victory — but also a mammoth task of reinvigorating a stagnant economy and dispirited nation. Labour leader Keir Starmer will officially become prime minister later Friday, leading his party back to government less than five years after it suffered its worst defeat in almost a century. In the merciless choreography of British politics, he will take charge in 10 Downing Street hours after Thursday's votes are counted — as Conservative leader Rishi Sunak is hustled out. "First...

Labour Leader Keir Starmer poised to become Britain's next prime minister. British voters frustrated by a sluggish economy voted to oust their conservative party from power after 14 years of rule, and turn to liberal Labour Leader Keir Starmer to be their next prime minister. Exit polls showed the Labour Party was poised for a landslide victory, ending Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's turbulent tenure. "To everyone who has campaigned for Labour in this election, to everyone who voted for us and put their trust in our changed Labour Party - thank you," Starmer wrote on the X social platform after...

Polls have closed in the UK General Election, and the nationwide exit poll says the Labour Party has won around 410 seats nationwide, replacing the Conservatives after 14 wasted years. Sir Keir Starmer, a top lawyer who once served as the United Kingdom’s Director of Public Prosecutions and supposedly former hardline leftist radical, who claims to have changed his mind and reformed the Labour party he now leads into a mature and capable governing force, is going to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Was this surprise and sudden election call by Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak designed in anticipation of future events? Perhaps economic ones? More likely military ones in Ukraine, Taiwan and or the Middle East? Or in the end anticipation of a Donald Trump victory in November in the US based on insider information about Biden's mental state and the pressure being applied on his presidency by outside-foreign forces? Mr. Sunak had the option of delaying the election call until December, but a later election... One thing that can be said about the expected winner of tonight's election Sir Keir Starmer...

BBC presenter David Aaronovitch sparked outrage on Monday after he called for the murder of President Donald Trump on Twitter-X. Aaronovitch, who has since deleted his call for murder from X, called on Joe Biden to “Hurry Up” and “have Trump murdered.” Don’t forget, it is the left that ALWAYS attacks the right for being violent and dangerous. And it is ALWAYS projection. David Aaronovitch defended his call for murder before he deleted his tweets. Aaronovitch is a presenter of BBC Radio’s 4’s Briefing Room. David Aaronovitch was reportedly raised by atheists whose “faith was Marxism.” The Express reported: A...

When Britain voted to exit the European Union in 2016, Donald Trump, then the Republican candidate for president, declared himself “Mr. Brexit.” Trump claimed solidarity with the nationalism, isolationism, and anti-immigrant fervor that drove Brexiteers and incorporated it into the America First platform he pursued after winning the 2016 presidential race. Brits now view their populist experiment as a dismal failure. Champions of Brexit, such as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, promised that severing political and economic integration with most of the rest of Europe would boost prosperity and self-sufficiency and leave more money for government services. Instead, the UK...

Kamala Harris’s team is concerned that Democrats will install a white candidate ahead of her to replace Joe Biden, arguing that it would be “offensive” to black voters to overlook her should the president stand aside. Mr Biden is facing calls to step back from the race over concerns about his age, after a disastrous television debate performance against Donald Trump on Thursday. The Biden campaign, which is a joint ticket between the US president and Ms Harris, has dismissed calls for him to step aside for a younger candidate. However, allies of Ms Harris are frustrated that she has...

Who really owns the paper? I’ve seen this before, but never at such a high-profile level. Journalists, including Bari Weiss, were squeezed out at the New York Times and targeted by campaigns coordinated by their colleagues with outside radical leftist outlets like Huffington Post, Vox, and The New Republic, but this time it went bigger than ever before. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos decided that his pet paper, The Washington Post, needed a change of management and brought in vets from the UK’s Telegraph. The Post’s wokes and some around the media decided that wouldn’t fly and began running hit pieces...

Taylor Swift fans have complained about not being able to see the stage during her Wembley show despite paying up to £700 for tickets. The megastar is in the midst of her first London leg of the Eras Tour - but fans who attended Saturday's show have expressed their frustrations. Some people raged as they revealed they had paid up to £700 for 'unobstructed' tickets yet ended up barely able to see the stage.

The Euro 2024 soccer tournament is under way in Dusseldorf, and in the U.K. there has been less attention to the games than hand-wringing over the likelihood of English fans singing “Ten German Bombers.” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has denounced the song as “offensive” and urged Brits not to sing it, as has England’s team manager. A German police chief has warned British fans, “Don’t be dicks.” Only a few voices have been raised in defense of English fans and their chant. So, seeing such consternation, I wanted to hear the song. As you no doubt assumed, it counts down,...

Two Just Stop Oil activists were arrested after spray painting two private jets orange at Stansted airport in the UK. The activists were reportedly attempting to target Taylor Swift's jet at the airfield, but did not manage to find it.

United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Tuesday that the Greek-owned coal carrier MV Tutor, struck by Houthi missiles and an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) on July 12, has sunk in the Red Sea. The Tutor became the second ship sunk by the Iran-backed Yemeni terrorists since they began their campaign of wanton attacks on commercial shipping in November. It also appears to have been the first ship to be severely damaged by a Houthi USV attack. The weapon was evidently a remote-controlled small boat packed with explosives.