Tag: UK election
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UK election: Pro-Gaza candidates defeat Labour in several seats
While the Labour Party’s position on Gaza has not dented its landslide UK general election win, several of its candidates lost to independent challengers campaigning on a pro-Palestine platform. Labour leader Keir Starmer was also heckled with shouts of “Free Palestine’’ both
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Boris Johnson returns to trail as UK election campaigns come to end
Former Conservative British prime minister Boris Johnson has lent his support to the incumbent prime minister, Rishi Sunak, on the campaign trail. This is coming as pollsters forecast their party could “win a lower share of the vote than at any past general election.”
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Jeremy Corbyn to stand as independent candidate in UK election
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain’s Labour Party, on Friday announced that he is standing as an independent candidate in the UK general election on July 4. Corbyn said he will stand in his Greater London constituency of Islington North, vowing to be “an independent voice for equality, democracy and peace.”