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2024 In Review: The Year The Tory Story Ended
Russell Jones looks back at how the ‘worst parliament in history’ came to its calamitous conclusion
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Tougher Rules Demanded to Tackle ‘Fake Candidates’ After YouTuber Listed as Standing in 11 Different Seats at the Same Time
YouTuber Niko Omilana’s prank highlights how few checks are made on the real identities of those who stand for election
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Calls for Government to Go ‘Much Further’ as Voter ID Changes are put to MPs
Campaigners warn thousands of legitimate voters will still be at risk of being disenfranchised under the ‘discriminatory’ system
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America, What are you Thinking?
Could the American people really be about to elect a man as obviously unfit for high office as Donald Trump as their next commander in chief?
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‘Scrap Callous Photo ID Scheme’ Campaigners Demand as Report Reveals Scale of Voter Suppression
Three quarters of a million people didn’t vote because of the “continued failure of the voter ID regime”
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Labour Needs the Muslim Vote to Stabilise its ‘Sandcastle Majority’
Sufyan Gulam Ismail offers some advice on how Labour can win back British Muslim voters after losing so many over the issue of Gaza
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Another Report Finds Voter ID Law Likely to Have Disenfranchised Hundreds of Thousands in UK General Election
Nearly half of those turned away on 4 July appear to be non-white, according to observers
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The Blue Wall’s Green Revolt: Conservative Support Eroded in Election Due To Weakening Climate Commitments
Almost half of voters in the 251 seats lost by the Conservatives in the 2024 General Election believed that the Government should not have abandoned its net zero policy commitments
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Failed Firms and CV Boasts – Little-Known New Reform UK MP’s Past Comes Under Scrutiny
Is James McMurdock a business super-star, or has he embellished his CV?
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‘Invisible’ Reform Candidates Could Have Swung Election Results in These Seats
Despite the candidates having zero online presence, many still garnered thousands of votes and may have swung close elections
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Scale of Votes with ‘No Impact’ in General Election Revealed as Campaigners Demand Electoral Reform
Record ‘distorted’ election result raises question marks’ for new Government according to Make Votes Matter
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Reform UK Candidate Accused of Flouting Election Law with Illicit Campaign Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Police confirm they are investigating allegations of potential election rule breach by a Reform UK candidate.
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‘If It Looks Like the Law Was Broken, Police Investigations Must Follow’: Elections Watchdog Receives Flood of Complaints Over ‘Phantom’ Reform Party Candidates
There has been a major public response to Byline Times’ report of ‘super-shy’ Reform UK parliamentary candidates – exposing concerning legal loopholes and the limits of the role of Electoral Commission
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The Longest Suicide Note in History: How Britain Rejected the Conservative Hard Right
Rishi Sunak’s historic defeat was a direct result of a decade of ideological hard-right policies that have decimated our political and social fabric
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IT’S OVER
Labour has won the 2024 General Election. Let’s take a look back at the multiple crises successive Conservative administrations worsened, created or ignored
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General Election 2024: Voter ID and Postal Vote Issues Risk Casting Shadow Over Polling Day
Nearly half of Brits incorrectly believe that a polling card can be used as ID when voting
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Labour and ‘Negative Cohesion’: Who’s Afraid of Starmageddon?
The Conservatives are about to pay the price for 14 years of epic misrule. But while a Labour ‘supermajority’ is in the best interests of the country, it is no guarantee of a return to stability, argues Simon Nixon
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Starmer’s ‘Supermajority’: A Product of Conservative Propaganda and Client Journalism
How a Conservative campaign line became the weaponised mantra of the Daily Mail – and infected the entire general election campaign
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Postal Vote Chaos ‘Emblematic of Past 14 Years’ of Government, Says Brit Who Has Lost their Vote Due to Delays
One disenfranchised voter told Byline Times that it represented the ‘utter clusterf**k that is the sum of 14 years’ of Conservative rule
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Reform UK’s Invisible Candidates: Who Are They Hiding?
Absent from hustings, media interviews, and social media, why are Nigel Farage’s Reform champions quite so elusive?
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Tens of Thousands Expected to ‘Vote Swap’ as Brits Forced to Game the Voting System
Voters are about to hack First Past the Post on an epic scale
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Farage’s Reform in Line for Millions of Pounds in Taxpayer ‘Short Money’ Funding If It Picks Up Seats in Election
The party says it will ensure taxpayers’ money is never wasted
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A ‘Russia Hoax’ or Russian Hopes? How Putin’s Troll Farms are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Campaigns – Again
Islamophobia, the Great Replacement Theory, and GB News are key elements in the Russian propaganda networks supporting the Reform Party
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Barriers to the Ballot: How Voter ID Marginalises Disabled People Who Feel It’s ‘Another Way Their Voice is Suppressed’
‘They have voted at every opportunity and have actively sought out and studied the various political parties, claims and policies. Once voter ID came to this country, they found the ID process a challenge’
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More Than 130 Reform Candidates Ignoring Electoral Commission Rules on Anonymous Donations
Candidates have raised tens of thousands for Nigel Farage’s party despite failing to explain how they will vet donors, amid claims the party doesn’t have ‘millionaire’ funders
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Another Reform Candidate Who is Former Conservative Councillor Accused Of Sharing ‘Fascist’ Content
As Nigel Farage’s party is embroiled in another racism scandal at the national level, Byline Times reveals its candidate in Richmond Park has previously come under fire for sharing content from Generation Identity and regularly makes racist social media posts
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A Tale of Two Very Different Debates: Biden and Trump’s Horror Show, Sunak and Starmer’s No Surprises
From lies, incompetence, porn, and golfing bravo in the US – to dull and boring, with a side of rude and shouty in the UK
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The Politics of Farage and Reform is No Joke of a Matter – The Established Media Must Learn Its Lessons and Start Holding Them to Account
The normalisation of racism and dog-whistles will only get worse if the press continues to treat Farage as an entertaining figure representing the ‘real views’ of the British people – it must stop, writes Byline Times’ Editor
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Former Green Councillor in Party Target Seat Threatens Legal Action Against Co-Leader Over Expulsion Amid Trans Rights Row
Then-councillor Jude English was suspended by the Greens shortly before the May elections, over transphobia allegations (she denies wrongdoing)
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Voters Say They Aren’t Hearing Enough About the Climate in This Election, Amid ‘Silence’ on Issue in BBC Debate
The final head to head debate between Starmer and Sunak didn’t have a single question on climate or nature.
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Dismay as Starmer Backs Westminster’s ‘Winner Takes All’ Voting System as Labour Eyes Big Majority
During his Labour leadership election, Starmer hinted at backing proportional representation. But he now appears to support continuing with Westminster’s First Past The Post voting system
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The Veteran’s Vendetta: ‘Why Johnny Mercer’s Attacks on a Former Serviceman and Political Rival Are So Problematic’
Mercer has said it is the ‘long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment on the activities of our Special Forces’ – but expects his political rival, Fred Thomas, to deviate from it
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New Parliament To Be Loaded with MPs From Water Industry – Amid Concerns ‘Bias’ Won’t Help Combat Sewage Discharges
‘There is a long history of industry leaders and lobbyists becoming politicians. In principle, this can be beneficial – but rarely is’
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The Conservatives Claim a Website Design Firm They Handed £100,000 in Taxpayer Cash is ‘Independent’ but it’s Listed at an Address Owned by a CCHQ Staffer
Records seen by Byline Times throw doubt on the party’s claims about the tech firm employed by Conservative MPs
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Veterans Won’t Be Able to Use Veterans’ ID Cards to Vote in General Election – Despite Rishi Sunak Claiming he is ‘Proud of Our Record Supporting’ Them After Skipping D-Day Event
A leaked memo by Veterans’ Affairs Minister Johnny Mercer revealed Rishi Sunak’s circle initially denied requests to allow the cards to be accepted over fears it would ‘open the floodgates’ to student ID cards
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‘It’s Far More Complicated Now Because of Voter ID’: Unprecedented Challenges Facing the Poll Workers Who Deliver Our Democracy
Matt Gallagher examines elections staffs’ repeated warnings of electoral ‘delivery failure’
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Overseas Voters Could Swing UK Election in Seats Around the Country – Latest Figures Revealed
Around a quarter of a million Brits living abroad could vote on 4 July, affecting results in areas they no longer live
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Voter ID: Hundreds of Thousands Risk Being Turned Away From Polls, Leading Human Rights Group Warns
Human rights group Liberty says there is a “huge risk” of large numbers of voters being denied their democratic rights
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Nigel Farage Claims ‘Corruption’ in the UK’s Postal Vote System – and Suggests Trump Lost to Biden due to ‘Ballot Harvesting’
Nigel Farage echoes Trump supporters’ conspiracy theories about electoral fraud in 2020 and makes unevidenced claims of corruption in the UK postal voting system
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How Conservative MPs Became the New ‘Shy Tories’ – Attempting to Win Votes by Distancing Themselves From their Party
The ‘Shy Tory’ effect now extends beyond voters to Conservative incumbents as critics complain that voters shouldn’t need a ‘magnifying glass to work out’ who they are voting for
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Brits Living Overseas Register to Vote in Large Numbers After Government Change – But Non-British UK Residents Locked Out
This is the first general election in which every Brit living overseas can vote, but many non-British workers living in the UK feel deliberately excluded
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Anti-Conservative Tactical Voting Website for General Election Crashes Due to ‘Extremely High Demand’
The guide is designed to oust the Conservatives from Government – but smaller parties have questioned some of the recommendations
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Telegraph Pours Thousands of Pounds Pushing Anti-Labour Stories on Social Media
The right-wing newspaper’s ads seem to skirt the line of partisan campaigning, prompting a note from the Electoral Commission…
