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The coming British Election is showing up two radically different angles about how democracies should work. Lee Duffield writes on the stand-off between the “reactionaries” and the “socialists”. THE FIRST BRITISH POLLS for the 2019 Election suggested we prepare for a Tory victory, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson forcing through …

Okay, they could picket the polling stations, or call a general strike for December 12. But those two extreme options aside, it is hard to imagine the trade unions could find a more obvious way of influencing the upcoming General Election than calling a postal strike during the campaign. Potentially …

Does the result of a general election affect stock markets? This is a question asked by many investors, yet the answer has almost as many nuances. As the country heads to the polls for the third time in four years, savers will be pondering the outlook for their portfolios. The …

A general election is now less than six weeks away after Parliament agreed to take the country to the polls before Christmas. It may be being dubbed the “Brexit election” but, as the Conservative Party discovered in 2017, other issues can quickly take centre stage. Theresa May’s disastrous plans to …

  Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention By Laura Tiernan 2 November 2019 US President Donald Trump intervened at the start of Britain’s snap general election campaign Thursday to publicly attack Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, warning that a Corbyn premiership would take the UK into “bad places.” Trump’s …

Questor Income Portfolio: the prospect of a hard-Left government rightly instils fear in investors. But what is a suitable course of action? Does a possible Corbyn government represent an existential threat to our portfolio? In theory, any business based or listed in Britain is at some risk from a hard-Left government. …

Postal workers are plotting to disrupt the election by going on strike in the weeks before the vote, the Telegraph has learned. The Royal Mail has written to trade union bosses pleading with them not to “threaten the integrity of our democracy” by refusing to deliver millions of postal votes, …

So febrile have been the scenes in Parliament in recent weeks that the economic statement by Chancellor Sajid Javid on September 4 has gone almost unnoticed, yet it was scarcely what we have come to expect from Tory governments. Declaring ‘the end of austerity’, Javid unveiled the biggest spending spree …

6.04pm GMT18:04 Afternoon summary Andrew Sparrow Jeremy Corbyn has challenged Johnson to TV debates on what has effectively been the first full day of campaigning since MPs agreed that there should be an election on Thursday 12 December. (See 4.06pm.) The bill approving the election is still being debated by …

SIR – There has never been a greater opportunity to achieve a stonking Conservative majority. The Prime Minister has strained every sinew to get Brexit done and is rightly popular because of it. Add to that the people’s desire to rid those green benches of MPs who have done everything …