Top Tory reacts to rumour Rishi Sunak could quit before General Election after D-Day backlash

A Scots Tory cabinet minister has admitted placing three bets on the date of the general election.

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has claimed he won more than £2000 betting on a General Election to take place in July.

The Conservatives have pledged to halt the rising costs of welfare by reforming the benefits system if they win the General Election on July 4. The latest offer from the Tories would help to save some £12 billion a year by the end of the next parliament, the party has claimed, by ensuring more working age people currently claiming benefits have a job.

Richard Hawley had some choice words for prime minister Rishi Sunak at a show in London on Saturday night (June 8).The Sheffield musician was headlining the Eventim Apollo, and before launching into his 2007 classic ‘Tonight The Streets Are Ours’, he shared some thoughts on the current UK General Election campaign.“You know, I’m 57 years old and I’ve seen some fucking arsehole politicians, but Sunak takes the fucking piss,” he said.The Conservative leader called the surprise early election on May 22, which will be held on July 4.“The thing that slaughters me is the fact that literally probably about a week ago, he came up with a stupid fucking idea to enlist teenagers for a year or two years or whatever, poor fuckers, you know what I mean?” Hawley continued.“That bastard couldn’t even manage a day, you know what I mean?”Hawley appears to be referencing the recent Tory pledge to introduce 12 months of mandatory national service for 18-year-olds, should they win the election.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sparked anger among voters and military leaders alike after the Tory party leader appeared to snub veterans when he skipped a ceremony to commemorate fallen D-Day soldiers in order to take part in a pre-recorded TV interview. The PM, who surveys predict is on track to lose the election, has been widely criticised by military officials for leaving behind a handful of surviving veterans and their families to drum up voter support with ITV.

Finding a Conservative voter in the safe Labour seat of Stretford and Urmston is not too difficult. But on our visit to speak to voters, finding one who thinks the Tories have got a chance of winning the General Election on July 4 was more like looking for a needle in a haystack.

The Conservative Party has accepted another multi-million-pound donation from Frank Hester.

Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of "deliberately lying" over claims that Labour would raise taxes by £2,000.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer clashed repeatedly during the first televised election debate of 2024, with the Conservative leader going on the attack, claiming that Labour would raise taxes by £2000 and even start taxing people claiming the State Pension. However, this was almost immediately refuted by pensions experts.

Viewers of the ITV General Election debate between Sir Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak slammed the head to head as 'chaotic' and 'pointless' on Tuesday night (June 4).

Tom Cruise has been spotted attempting to get into Rishi Sunak’s car in central London.The Top Gun star was filmed trying to get into an Audi at Battersea Heliport after waving to some of his fans. However, when the door didn’t open, the Mission: Impossible star walked round to his car, parked in the next space, where the door was held open by a member of his entourage.Not long after the mistake, the Prime Minister was seen successfully getting into the car which Cruise had been mistakenly trying to enter.

EXCLUSIVE: David Hare, one of the UK’s foremost playwrights and a double Oscar nominee, is in an unsparing mood about the state of UK politics. This comes as leaders of the country’s two major parties parry in the cut and thrust of the July 4 general election.

An election candidate hoping to be re-elected as a North West MP says a 'bully' has posted excrement through her office door. Police were called out to the office for Katherine Fletcher in South Ribble, Lancashire, yesterday (May 30) after the shocking discovery by her campaign team.

Former Tory MP Mark Logan has announced he is backing Labour at the general election in July and said he is planning to join the party.

Naman Ramachandran Aspiring Prime Ministerial candidate Keir Starmer of the opposition Labour Party will face incumbent Rishi Sunak of the Conservative Party in the first televized debate of the upcoming U.K. general election. The polls are scheduled to take place on July 4.

The BBC has confirmed which presenters will be fronting their TV coverage on the night of the general election. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed in a televised statement outside Number 10 that the election would take place on Thursday, July 4.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended his “bold” plan to bring back a form of compulsory national service amid a ministerial backlash and confusion about the policy.

West Dunbartonshire’s MP has welcomed the calling of a general election, saying that it gives voters the opportunity to “kick out this woeful Westminster government.”

The Home Secretary insists he is 'particularly sorry' to Figen Murray after plans to introduce Martyn's Law were scuppered by the general election. Martyn Hett's campaigning mum walked 200 miles from Manchester to Westminster as part of her campaign to change the law.

Introduced in 1947 to resolved military manpower services after the Second World War it resulted in two million men being called up to join the British armed services.. But to many the experience of National Service was one of mindless drill and being shouted art by sergeants under pressure to knock conscripts into shape. Some hated it, others saw it as character building camaraderie.