Tag: UK General Election 2015

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 09:06 UTC

  Tory majority government, but looking to Scottish independentists' landslide

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives won a stunning victory in Britain's election on Friday, which cut short the careers of his top three rivals and put the country's European Union future in doubt.

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 08:57 UTC

  Nicola Sturgeon 'tectonic plates of Scottish politics” promises to fight austerity imposed by Tory government

  

  Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon on Friday held out the possibility of a new independence referendum – but not immediately – after her party's crushing victory north of the border in a British national election.

• Friday, May 8th 2015 - 06:59 UTC

  Conservatives on course to a major victory, as SNP wipes out Labor in Scotland

  

  The Conservatives are on course to be the largest party with David Cameron hopeful of gaining a majority in the UK general election. Labor faces being wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and is failing to make the gains it needs in England to stand a chance of forming a government.

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 06:19 UTC

  Fifty million people registered to vote and elect 650 Westminster MPs

  

  49.5 million people are registered to cast their votes in the UK general election on Thursday 7 May. Polls open at 07:00 BST at around 50,000 polling stations across the United Kingdom. A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 50 million people registered to vote.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:01 UTC

  Hung parliament and delicate coalition knitting forecasted for UK Thursday vote

  

  The Conservatives and Labor on Monday launched their final push to woo voters ahead of Britain's general election this week, as potential kingmaker parties made their pitch for power.

• Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 02:22 UTC

  Falklands people's “democratic rights” will be upheld, pledges Tories' manifesto

  

  With less than a month to UK's election the Conservative party released its manifesto which explicitly declares that a Tory government “will uphold the democratic rights of the people of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands to remain British, for as long as that is their wish, and protect our Overseas Territories”.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 09:24 UTC

  UK electoral campaign takes off; no party expected to win a clear majority

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron paid a courtesy call on Queen Elizabeth II, then launched a most non courteous attack on his main political rival as campaigning formally began Monday in the most unpredictable U.K. election in decades.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:39 UTC

  Argentina as a 'live threat' to the Falklands, triggers fury from Buenos Aires

  

  The government of President Cristina Fernandez accused the United Kingdom of using an alleged Argentine threat to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in order to boost its military budget, while also claiming that the archipelago has been turned into an electoral campaign issue.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 02:22 UTC

  UK launches an overseas voter registration campaign for 7 May election

  

  This week the UK Electoral Commission has launched a dedicated overseas voter registration campaign. The campaign aims to encourage British citizens living overseas to register to vote ahead of the UK Parliamentary General Election, due to take place on Thursday 7 May 2015.

• Thursday, November 13th 2014 - 05:57 UTC

  A new settlement for England, and all Britons

  

  By Andrew Rosindell (*) - The No vote in the Scottish referendum has kept the Union together, for now. I fear however, that the issue has not gone away. We must act soon and take this opportunity to secure the future of the United Kingdom.