3 h. ago Leftwinger Catherine Connolly to be Ireland’s next president after landslide poll victory

Heather Humprehys concedes defeat after early vote tallies show insurmountable gap between the candidatesThe leftwing independent candidate, Catherine Connolly, has won a landslide victory in Ireland’s presidential election.Her rival, Heather Humprehys, conceded defeat on Saturday afternoon after early vote tallies showed an insurmountable gap between the candidates. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide

Heather Humphreys concedes defeat after early vote tallies show insurmountable gap between candidatesThe leftwing independent candidate, Catherine Connolly, has won a landslide victory in Ireland’s presidential election.Her rival, Heather Humphreys, conceded defeat on Saturday afternoon after early vote tallies showed an insurmountable gap between the candidates. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the votersThe people of Arizona’s seventh congressional district – a vast territory extending across the state’s south, along the Mexican border – have been denied representation in Congress for weeks. That’s because Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, has refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva, their representative-elect, who won a special election to fill the seat vacated by her father, the late Raúl Grijalva, in a landslide late last month. Grijalva, a Democrat, has been largely ignored by the speaker. Unlike sworn representatives, she has to go around the Capitol with an escort. There’s an office with her name on the door, but she hasn’t been allowed inside, and has worked instead out of a conference room on another floor.It is an unprecedented abuse of procedural power on the part of the speaker, one that has had the effect of silencing a political opponent and denying ...

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3 w. ago Mark my words, after this abuse we will teach Keir Starmer a lesson at the ballot box: NIGEL FARAGE

A party that won the general election with a loveless landslide just over a year ago now finds itself in very deep (and in many ways deserved) trouble.

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3 w. ago Starmer brands Reform UK’s migration plan ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’

Sir Keir said he believes Labour can ‘pull this round’ as a poll suggested Nigel Farage could be on course for a landslide win in the next general election

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4 w. ago DAILY MAIL COMMENT: One year on from the Prime Minister's hubristic conference, the nation is gloomy, fearful and angry

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A year ago today, Sir Keir Starmer was putting the finishing touches to his first speech to the Labour conference since leading the party to an election landslide.

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