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Johnson’s casual misogyny has kept women out of the election campaign | Zoe Williams The macho imagery has been all diggers and oven-ready Brexits. There’s no room for female Tories to get a look-inDoes Boris Johnson have a problem with women? The Conservative campaign has certainly been very male: Matt Hancock and Michael Gove the most prominent voices besides the prime minister. Liz Truss ranking 65th among media presence of cabinet and shadow cabinet ministers, with a mere 0.2% of appearances.In the interests of fair-mindedness, it should be pointed out that all female Conservatives who are halfway decent – in the sense of stringing effective sentences together that aren’t composed mainly of lies – have left the party. Amber Rudd, Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan, Justine Greening, all su...

Corbyn and Johnson deliver final messages as election polls narrow Party leaders spend day travelling to key marginals urging voters to back their vision for the countryGeneral election – live newsJeremy Corbyn urged Britain to “shock the establishment” and “vote for hope”, while Boris Johnson pleaded with voters to back him and settle the issue of Brexit before Christmas, at the conclusion of a bruising election campaign.Both leaders stressed that the result could be very close as they toured marginal seats across the country with just 24 hours to go before the ballot boxes open on Thursday. Continue reading... Go to Source

BBC denies Laura Kuenssberg's postal vote comments broke law Broadcaster’s political editor said on air that ballots in so far were looking ‘grim’ for LabourThe BBC has said its political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, did not break electoral law when she reported claims that postal ballots painted a “grim” picture for Labour.Kuenssberg told viewers on Wednesday that while parties were not supposed to look at voting papers when they were verified – but not counted – at opening sessions, they did “get a hint” of how they were doing and it was not looking good for Labour. Continue reading... Go to Source

Factcheck: Christmas won't be more expensive under Labour We examine the Tories’ claim that the cost of the festive season for families would rise by over £100 under Jeremy CorbynThe Conservatives claimed that Christmas for families across Britain would be a third more expensive under Labour. Continue reading... Go to Source

The view from Stevenage: 'I feel I have to vote to get Johnson out' Labour activists in my hometown feel the tide may be turning, but worry it could be too little too lateGeneral election latest - live news‘Even the union rep says he isn’t voting Labour’How will the UK’s first new town vote?When Eric Harvey contacted the Guardian last month he was planning on voting Liberal Democrat. But he had reservations. Brexit was the main issue for Harvey, a retired registrar and post office senior manager who has lived in Stevenage for two years, but the Lib Dems’ complicity in austerity gave him pause. When I met him a couple weeks later, he was leaning towards Labour. His wife is one of the millions of women affected by the change in pension rules and he liked Labour’s promise on that front, ...

Johnson ends painful campaign with usual bad gags and lies | John Crace There was no sense of a triumphant homecoming in a depressing finaleNormally it’s Dominic Raab who keeps turning up at crime scenes. There’s something about unsolved murders he finds irresistible. But for his last rally of the election campaign, Boris Johnson couldn’t stop himself from returning to the Olympic Park in London. The location of the stadium that ran hopelessly over budget and still costs the country £20m a year thanks to Boris negotiating a piss-poor deal with West Ham. The venue that he recently insisted had launched a nationwide shagfest. It hadn’t. Half of the Copper Box Arena had already been partitioned off, but there were still plenty of empty spaces among the 700 or so Tory activists who had b...

General election: Party leaders cross country in final push for votes – live news Labour and the Conservatives in scramble for votes on the final day of campaigningPoll: Tories still favourites but hung parliament a real possibilityLatest opinion poll trackerBoris Johnson ‘hides in fridge’ to avoid Piers Morgan interviewSign up for Andrew Sparrow’s daily election briefing 11.52am GMTAs part of a series you can ask our political team any questions you have about the general election, and they will post their responses on the politics live blog between 12.30pm and 1.30pm today and Friday.Today, Rowena Mason, deputy political editor for the Guardian, will answer any questions you have on the general election. You can ask your question via our form here. 11.50am GMTHere is a question from...

The Guardian view on general election 2019: A fleeting chance to stop Boris Johnson in his tracks | Editorial The mood may be one of despair, but this election is critical to the country’s future. The best hope lies with Labour, despite its flawsBritain has not faced a more critical election in decades than the one it faces on Thursday. The country’s future direction, its place in the world and even its territorial integrity are all at stake, primarily because this is a decisive election for Brexit. The choice is stark. The next prime minister is going to be either Boris Johnson, who is focused on “getting Brexit done” whatever the consequences, or Jeremy Corbyn, who with a Labour-led government will try to remodel society with a programme of nationalisation and public spending. Conti...

Boris Johnson 'hides in fridge' to avoid Piers Morgan interview Aide swears at Good Morning Britain producer who approached PM during pre-dawn visit to dairyLatest election news - live updatesBoris Johnson retreated into a fridge to avoid a TV interview, amid rattled nerves at CCHQ over a narrowing in the opinion polls.The prime minister was ambushed by the Good Morning Britain producer, Jonathan Swain, during a pre-dawn visit to Modern Milkman, a business in the Tory-held constituency of Pudsey, in Yorkshire. Continue reading... Go to Source

Election opinion polls tracker: gap between Labour and Tories narrows with result in balance Find out who’s ahead in the polls on the campaign’s final day. Over the last few weeks, Labour and the Tories have crept up at the expense of the Lib Dems and the Brexit party. But there is still enough variation in the polls that some are predicting a comfortable Conservative majority while others are pointing to a possible hung parliamentUK general election 2019 – latest coverageWhat the polls mean – and what they don’tContinue reading... Go to Source

Tories face loss of St Albans as candidate fails to impress voters Lib Dems could be handed victory by disillusioned Conservatives and tactical Labour votersDaniel Humphrey, a St Albans entrepreneur who set up the country’s first whisky subscription club, might have been part of the former Conservative leader David Cameron’s blueprint for the “big society”. He loves the town he grew up in, plays in several sports teams, worked with local councillors on air pollution initiatives, and organised a whisky festival in St Albans this summeras part of an effort to build community spirit.The London commuter town feels like a picture of conservative prosperity to a casual visitor, with its Norman cathedral – sheltering one of Britain’s oldest Christian shrines – elegant period homes and hillsi...